Do you believe what you see? After captivating millions of visitors in Tokyo, Miami, and Milan, an exhibition dedicated to Leandro Erlich arrives for the first time in France at the Grand Palais. From one work to another, perspectives shift, architectures are disrupted, and reality transforms before your eyes.
Known for his spectacular installations in public spaces, Leandro Erlich explores the mechanisms of perception. At the intersection of installation, sculpture, and architecture, his immersive works - conceived at a human scale - take the form of dispositifs activated by the viewer’s presence. By moving through and observing, each visitor becomes part of the experience.
The artist draws on techniques borrowed from illusionism and trompe-l’œil: mirrors, appearances, shifts in scale, and perspective effects. Using elements from everyday life, he creates situations that unsettle reference points and transform our relationship to space.
Conceived in collaboration with curator Fabrice Bousteau, the exhibition unfolds as a progressive journey composed of fourteen monumental and iconic installations: levitating boats, weightless clouds, modernist architectures transformed into infinite labyrinths, as well as a Haussmann-style building tipped onto its side that visitors can climb.
Several installations, specially conceived for this retrospective, play with the inversion of perspective. What is perceived from the outside is transformed once inside. Viewpoints shift, and points of reference become unstable. Punctuated with artistic, literary, and architectural references, the exhibition also traces the artist’s trajectory and questions the way we perceive reality.
In the mirror, I see myself where I am not, in an unreal space that virtually opens up behind the surface; I am over there, where I am not, a kind of shadow that gives me my own visibility, that allows me to look at myself where I am absent - a utopia of the mirror. - Michel Foucault, Of Other Spaces, lecture, 1967 (published in Dits et Écrits, 1978)
Exhibition organised by GrandPalaisRmn in coproduction with Arthemisia
Curator
Fabrice Bousteau
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About Leandro Erlich
Leandro Erlich was born in Argentina in 1973 and lives and works in Paris, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo. Over the past two decades, his work has been exhibited internationally and is included in the permanent collections of prestigious museums and private collections, including the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Tate Modern, London; the Musée National d’Art Moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; the MACRO, Rome; and the Israel Museum, among other renowned cultural institutions.
As a conceptual artist, his work questions the foundations of our perception of reality and explores art’s capacity to raise questions from a visual perspective. His creations aim to bridge the gap between the museum or gallery space and everyday experiences, inviting the viewer to actively participate in the construction of meaning.
Monday through Sunday, 10 am to 8 pm (last admission at 7 pm)
Late-night hours on Fridays until 10 pm (last admission at 9 pm)
Exceptional closure: 14 July Early closing: 26 July at 3pm
Galleries 9 & 10
Some works may require a waiting period
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Access: 1 Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris
Entrance Rotonde Clarence Dillon
Accessibility
This exhibition is accessible to people with limited mobility.
Prices
Full price: €19
Reduced price: €16 Season ticket holders, ages 18–25
Youth price: €10 Ages 5–17
Free - Children under 5, job seekers, visitors with disabilities, GrandPalais Pass holders...
Liberté Ticket: €24 Walk-in admission on the date and time of your choice through August 23
Discover the exhibition with an expert guide, through games and interaction. An exploration visit designed exclusively for children and young people aged 7 to 16. Duration: 1h Visit in French only
