Richard Woods — Some Shelves I Made — Semiose Gallery — Exhibition — Slash Paris

Past: June 28 → July 26, 2025

Richard Woods — Semiose, Paris At the Semiose gallery, Richard Woods plays with contrast and materiality, guiding us through shifting layers of reality. Celebrating the simplicity — even the rusticity — of an artistic practice that merges pleasure and utility, Woods presents a thoroughly seductive display, one that subverts creative conventions and leaves us stunned before the birth of a world we might well choose to inhabit. Colors, textures, patterns: everything speaks to us, everything projects us elsewhere.

Following his first exhibition at Semiose in 2023 (Harvest), Richard Woods returns with Some Shelves I Made, a collection of shelves covered in his distinctive faux-wood pattern, characterized by pronounced grain and vivid colors. Rustic in design and occasionally embellished with picturesque details such as cut-out heart motifs or scalloped edges, the shelves are displayed on the wall like small pictorial works.