Pol Taburet

Lafayette Anticipations becomes a domestic space inhabited by visions that take us into a reality close to hallucination. Drawing on both personal and collective mythologies, tales, cartoons and art history, the works presented in this exhibition are inspired by the imagination of childhood and its capacity to create new worlds.
 
The architecture becomes charged with presence, the inanimate comes to life, the monstrous hides in the shadows and emotions take shape. Figures emerge from paintings and sculptures like ghosts, bodies caught in the artificial lights of a living room, a theatre, a strip club. Born in a space of intimacy—a space that is domestic but also one of memory, dream or fantasy—these “spirit-figures” break free to come to bring the Fondation’s exhibition spaces to life.
 
Throughout the exhibition, the strange mingles with the familiar and the works invent a human bestiary. What are the innermost impulses, visions, and desires that animate our minds and our bodies? Pol Taburet’s work invites us into the depths of the being, into its invisible, shameful, or untameable territories. OPERA III: ZOO “The Day of Heaven and Hell” is the latest chapter in a cycle dedicated to the powers of the imagination, here suspended somewhere between heaven and hell.

Curator: Elsa Coustou

In partnership with Libération, M Le Magazine du Monde, TRAX, Time Out, The New York Times and France Culture.

Visual credit: View of Pol Taburet’s exhibition OPERA III: ZOO “The Day of Heaven and Hell” at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, 21 June – 3 September 2023 © Pierre Antoine, Lafayette Anticipations