Push-up rêveries — Exposition Project Room, Garance Früh — Frac île-de-france, le Plateau — Exhibition — Slash Paris

Starts today: June 18 → July 20, 2025

Garance Früh — En questions Par la confrontation des matières et des formes, Garance Früh oppose des ordres sensibles pour faire naître la perception ambiguë des corps dans le monde. De la douceur à la rupture, de l’exclusion à la fusion au sein de la communauté des chairs, le corps se fait témoin et agent d’une sensibilité dont chaque pièce de l’artiste semble appeler à une remise en cause profonde à travers une expressivité libérée et peut-être même libératoire.

Garance Früh’s sculpture and installation work maintains a fragile and tenuous link with questions of protecting, defending and caring for the body, using pre-existing materials that most often constrain, protect or clothe the female body. In this way, beads, hair clips, crinolines, corsets, underwear frames and turnings, as well as the structures of childhood cradles and childcare materials and utensils, are inflected, bent and adorned with various attributes, reflecting a paradoxical sense of self-generation and seduction tinged with muted violence. The milky softness of the fabrics, like that of the leather skins, contradicts their maximum tension in space, or their embrace of the form that guides them. Both shells and nests, Garance Früh’s sculptures give birth to rounded forms. Their eroticism is alternately hidden and revealed, involving us in a layered, clothed vulnerability.

Curator: Maëlle Dault

Garance Früh was born in Strasbourg in 1992 and lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in 2018 and from Ensapc in Cergy in 2020. In 2024, she was the winner of the ‘À l’œuvre’ production residency at Lafayette Anticipations — Fondation Galeries Lafayette. Her studio is at DOC in the 19th arrondissement of Paris.