Sweet Lust’ is an exhibition curated by Michèle Lamy in collaboration with White Cube Senior Director Mathieu Paris.
The artworks presented at White Cube Paris, whose dates range from 1929 to the present day, are born of Lamy’s visceral response to specific works that agitate preconceptions of the body and its representation.
Revitalising this age-old preoccupation, ‘Sweet Lust’ celebrates a poetics of the body – from the material flesh of corporeality, to its desires, drives and impulses – and the amorphous ways it has found expression in art.
‘When the gallery asked me to curate a show at White Cube Paris salon I was exhilarated and also thought, fuck – both nervous and anguished. How to dare… At the same time, it felt pretty safe… A big gallery with great artists, and with friends. At this time I saw immense and great exhibitions, including those of Anne Imhof and Robert Mapplethorpe. The body is beautiful and we are happy to present a story of our time, one that proposes a new stage of opportunity and strength. I hope that my Deleuzian assemblage, like a code of conduct, will allow you to desire the show as an ensemble, even if it’s in their singularities that I adore each and every one of the artists. Sweet Lust everybody!’
– Michèle Lamy, 2022
Sweet Lust Curated by Michèle Lamy and Mathieu Paris 3rd March – 30th April 2022 White Cube Paris 10 avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris (by appointment: enquiryparis@whitecube.com)
EXHIBITED ARTISTS
Korakrit Arunanondchai, Nairy Baghramian, Giovanni Bassan, Hans Bellmer, Louise Bourgeois, Marco Brambilla, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Robert Colescott, Somaya Critchlow, Julie Curtiss, Tracey Emin, Katharina Fritsch, Mona Hatoum, Anne Imhof, Lee Lozano, Sarah Lucas, Christian Marclay, Pierre Molinier, Bruce Nauman, Rick Owens Furniture, Francis Picabia, Scarlett Rouge, Sarah Slappey, Alina Szapocznikow, Jwan Yosef.
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- Alina Szapocznikow
- Anne Imhof
- Berlinde de Bruyckere
- Bruce Nauman
- Christian Marclay
- contemporary art
- Francis Picabia
- Giovanni Bassan
- Hans Bellmer
- Julie Curtiss
- Jwan Yosef.
- Katharina Fritsch
- Korakrit Arunanondchai
- LEE LOZANO
- Louise Bourgeois
- Marco Brambilla
- Mathieu Paris
- Michele Lamy
- Mona Hatoum
- Nairy Baghramian
- Pierre Molinier
- Rick Owens Furniture
- Robert Colescott
- Sarah Lucas
- Sarah Slappey
- Scarlett Rouge
- Somaya Critchlow
- Tracey Emin
- White Cube
