Art Paris Art Fair 2027 : La Suisse à l'honneur

REPARATION

by Alexia Fabre

Rparation

Alexia Fabre sets out to explore contemporary art through the perspective of reparation, taking as her starting point twenty international artists selected from the participating galleries. Reparation is a broad term: its meaning shifts across artists, cultures and temporalities. By making connections between the past, present and future, reparation evokes notions such as care, kindness and time spent preserving objects, ideas, people and stories. It seeks to put together fragments, to mend wounds – both physical and symbolic. It hints at injuries, wars, absences, suffering and oblivion, gesturing towards historical silences and injustices, as well as the hope of projecting a new and “entirely” reconstructed element into the future.

The catalogue, featuring the selected works and texts by the guest curator, is now available to download below. You can also explore the 3D virtual exhibition dedicated to the focus, as well as the panel discussion moderated by Alexia Fabre, available on Art Paris's YouTube channel.

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Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Mujer Isla, 2025

Selected Artists:

Nú Barreto (born in 1966, Guinea-Bissau) – Galerie Nathalie Obadia
Oliver Beer (born in 1985, United Kingdom) – Almine Rech
Anaïs Boudot (born in 1984, France) – Binome
Javier Carro Temboury (born in 1997, Spain) – Galerie Manon Sailly
Teresa Gancedo (born in 1937, Spain) – RocioSantaCruz
Shilpa Gupta (born in 1976, India) – Galleria Continua
Aung Ko (born in 1980, Burma) – A2Z Art Gallery
Rachel Labastie (born in 1978, France) – Galerie La Forest Divonne
Mehdi-Georges Lahlou (born in 1983, France) – Galerie Papillon
Nge Lay (born in 1979, Burma) – A2Z Art Gallery
Nguyễn Duy Mạnh (born in 1984, Vietnam) – Galerie Bao
Juanita Mclauchlan (born in 1975, Australia) – Cassandra Bird Gallery
Otobong Nkanga (born in 1974, Nigeria) – In Situ - Fabienne Leclerc & Lumen Travo Gallery
Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza (born in 1978, Ecuador) – Galerie Alain Gutharc
Enrique Ramírez (born in 1979, Chile) – Michel Rein
Ruddy Roye (born in 1969, Jamaica) – Galerie Polaris
Alison Saar (born in 1956, United States of America) – Galerie Lelong
Mary Sibande (born in 1982, South Africa) – Everard Read
Arthur Simms (born in 1961, Jamaica) – RX&SLAG
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra (born in 1967, Chile) – Galerie Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain

^{Alexia Fabre is executive director of the Centre Pompidou Francilien in Massy. As a heritage curator she was previously in charge of running the project for the creation of the MAC VAL contemporary art museum.
Amongst other activities, Alexia Fabre was artistic director of the Nuit Blanche Paris in 2009 and 2011 (together with Frank Lamy) and of the Biennale l’Art de la Joie in Quebec in 2017. She co-curated La Lune-du voyage réel aux voyages imaginaires at the RMN Grand Palais in 2019 alongside Philippe Malgouyres and was the president of Videomuseum, the professional network of public collections of modern and contemporary art, from 2018 to 2022. She has taught at the École du Louvre and been a member of the Musée National d’Art Moderne acquisitions committee, associate curator at Grand Paris Express, president of the Prix Dauphine pour l’Art Contemporain and a member of the Prix Emerige. From 2022 to March 2025, she directed the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, where she defended the values of diversity and inclusivity, the recognition of artists and their implication in society and present-day issues. In 2024 - 2025, she curated the 17^th Biennale de Lyon - Les voix des fleuves / Crossing the water.}

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Duy Mạnh Nguyễn, Blessures Béantes (Những Vết Thương Hở) / Éléphant Blanc dans un Étang aux Lotus (Voi Trắng trong Đầm Sen), 2025

Duy Mạnh Nguyễn
Blessures Béantes (Những Vết Thương Hở) / Éléphant Blanc dans un Étang aux Lotus (Voi Trắng trong Đầm Sen), 2025
Less than 5000 €
Galerie Bao