10/14/2022
: Galerie Marian Goodman and Perrotin Paris are pleased to announce Tavares Strachan’s first exhibitions in France starting concomitantly at the two galleries on October 15, 2022.
In Broad Daylight at Perrotin Paris and In Total Darkness at Galerie Marian Goodman mark the second and third part of a trilogy of exhibitions which began in New York with The Awakening (Galerie Marian Goodman, May 6 – June 11, 2022).
The exhibition at Galerie Marian Goodman is a journey into time and space, mingling past and contemporary narratives through a series of domestic and spiritual spaces. Through this immersive and site-specific experience, which incorporates mixed-media and multilayered sculptural works, Strachan summons a large spectrum of historical and cultural references. In Total Darkness engages with French colonialism through an investigation of the Haitian Revolution, the first victorious revolt of Black slaves, and in so doing, Strachan questions our presumed knowledge of history.
“In Broad Daylight” (Perrotin Paris) is a phrase that speaks to the brazen-ness of an offense. To commit a criminal act in prime time, when it can be fully seen and witnessed, often confounds and produces an adamant disbelief. Strachan’s proclivity for playing with double meaning is reflected in the exhibition’s title through his interpretation of the phrase as a revelation of fundamental truths; a nod to an old wives’ tale, “sunlight being the best medicine.” In this exhibition, Strachan explores this duality through a new series of life-size sculptures based on the theme of the Madonna and Child. “One of the things that the history of religious storytelling has done very well is to take beauty and tragedy and smash them together. This is what I am trying to do with this series of sculptures,” explains Strachan.
