Sarkis's Eighth Solo Exhibition at Galerie Nathalie Obadia

Galerie Nathalie Obadia presents 'Infini croisement des détails avec sa mesure en lumière', Sarkis's eighth solo exhibition with the gallery. The show features twelve fabric panels (250 x 150 cm each) displaying around a hundred images from the artist's studio in Villejuif, accompanied by neon crystal 'mesures' in rainbow colors. Sarkis, born in Istanbul in 1938 and based in Paris since 1964, has transformed a former printing factory in Villejuif (acquired in 2000) into a studio housing thousands of objects spanning 150 million years. The exhibition highlights his method of creating 'infinite interconnections' between disparate items, such as a 150-million-year-old fossilized marble from Erfoud, Morocco, paired with an electronic metronome tuned to his heartbeat. A work table with a glass slab and translucent paper reproduces black-and-white prints of his 'detailed contact sheets', serving as a spatio-temporal autobiography referencing Istanbul, Paris, Berlin, Montbéliard, Lyon, Yerevan, San Francisco, Venice, and Geneva. The installation also includes 'Les 7 terrains en arc-en-Ciel' (2024), a fresco of fluorescent Liquitex colors sprinkled with white rice, a motif recurring since 2012. The lighting evokes Aby Warburg's 'Mnemosyne Atlas', with neon rainbows bathing the space.