For the first show post-lockdown, from May 23 to August 14, 2020, Perrotin has invited twenty-six Paris-based galleries to present a selection of work from their artists. The exhibition comprises four consecutive two-week-long presentations, with each one inclusive of six to seven independent galleries.

For Ernest Hemingway, an American in Paris, Paris was “a moveable feast.” For Jean-Philippe Delhomme, a Frenchman in Los Angeles, Los Angeles is a language.

This exhibition forms an experience of delirium and dialectical tension. Unlike the direct abstraction we form when establishing the overall meaning of something, and contrary to the “clarity” of the identity principle, which defines an object based on the images we associate with it, these operations are fundamentally visual—the synthesis of objects that do not evoke a conventional image but, first and foremost, a simple material presence.