C'est Un Endroit Que Je Connais Assez Bien

Air de Paris presents C'est Un Endroit Que Je Connais Assez Bien [A Place I Know Quite Well], an exhibition bringing together ceramic sculptures by Juli Susin, analog prints and rayographs by Véronique Bourgoin, as well as a selection of archives from Royal Book Lodge—an editorial project initiated by the two artists that has gradually brought together many artist friends over time. For more than thirty years, Véronique Bourgoin and Juli Susin have developed distinct practices that have continuously engaged in dialogue and intersected, nourished by formal and thematic affinities, shared political concerns, and above all by a common commitment to creation as a space for research and collaboration. Echoing Toyen's eponymous drawing from which the exhibition takes its title, the project reveals a constellation of gestures and forms shaped both by the legacy of Surrealism and by a critical proximity to the Situationists, in which experimentation and lived experience occupy a central place. The exhibition is accompanied by a text by John C. Welchman, an art historian and leading author on their practices and on the Royal Book Lodge, shedding light on its singular scope and historical importance within the field of contemporary art.