Anne Imhof, Natures Mortes at Palais de Tokyo
After laying siege to the German pavilion with her masterpiece Faust, for which she was awarded the Golden Lion at the 2017 Venice Biennale, Anne Imhof takes hold of the entirety of the Palais de Tokyo to create an all-embracing, polyphonic work. Here, she fuses space and bodies, music and painting, and her own works with those of accomplices, especially the artist and musical composer Eliza Douglas, and thirty invited guest artists.
With this new edition of the Carte Blanche series, the Palais de Tokyo aims to present the full scope and complexity of Imhof’s artistic practice. This major exhibition, the artist’s largest project to date, will bring together painting, drawing and sculpture – aspects of her practice that are relatively unknown in France – as well as a new performance work based on her research into the staging of bodies and sound composition.