Almine Rech

Discover ‘CURIOUSLY’, Javier Calleja’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery, on view at Almine Rech Paris, Turenne until July 25, 2026!



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“I tried to do something new and I did the same, so now I do the same and it seems really new,” Calleja tells me — his works invariably described as featuring “characters with big eyes.” It is strange, because there is so much more, it seems to me, beyond those big eyes; yet they have come to stand in for the elusive strangeness of his work. Intimate, simple, immediate on the surface, his works are in truth extraordinarily complex and disorienting, never fully resolved. What they assert is less a univocal statement than a vehicle for reaching something less legible, deeper, perhaps inaccessible. They illuminate — even as they preserve their shadows — something seminal within us, something we reach for, ceaselessly, without ever quite arriving.

— Éric Troncy, art critic, curator, and co-director of Consortium Museum in Dijon, France

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Photos by Nicolas Brasseur
©️ Javier Calleja - Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech

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Taryn Simon’s works are featured in ‘Remix: Photography – Fiction and Truth’, currently on view at the Kunsthalle Bremen in Bremen, Germany (until 28 February 2027). The exhibition draws attention to the traditional notion of photography as an objective representation, a reliable documentation of reality or even as evidence in the investigation of crimes.

Taryn Simon’s ‘The Innocents’ (2000–2003) documents the stories of individuals who served time in prison for violent crimes they did not commit. At issue is the question of photography’s function as a credible eyewitness and arbiter of justice.

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Die Werke von Taryn Simon sind derzeit in Deutschland in der Kunsthalle Bremen in „Remix. Photographie – Fiktion und Wahrheit“ (bis 28. Februar 2027) zu sehen,. Die Ausstellung richtet den Blick auf die traditionelle Vorstellung der Photographie als objektive Darstellung, als verlässliche Dokumentation der Realität oder sogar als Beweismittel bei der Aufklärung von Verbrechen.

Taryn Simons „The Innocents“ (2000–2003) dokumentiert die Geschichten von Personen, die für Gewalttaten ins Gefängnis kamen, die sie nicht begangen haben. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die Frage nach der Funktion der Photographie als glaubwürdiger Augenzeuge und als Instanz der Gerechtigkeit.

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Installation views of © Taryn Simon
Photo by Kunsthalle Bremen / Tobias Hübel

‘WILLIAM GREGORY Wick’s Parlor, Louisville, Kentucky with fiancée Vicki Kidwell, whom he dated prior to conviction Gregory was pool champion in prison served 7 years of a 70-year sentence’, 2002
Chromogenic print Framed archival inkjet print
122 cm × 157 cm
48 x 62 Inches
© Taryn Simon

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‘Ali Cherri: To Fall, Patiently’, opens next week on June 13, 2026 at the Oakville Galleries, US and will be open through October 3, 2026. Highly influenced by the Lebanese postwar art scene, Ali Cherri’s complex body of work interrogates how histories and currencies of political violence resonate through generations as well as physical and cultural landscapes, objects and places.
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At the Gairloch Gallery, Ali Cherri presents a series of sculptures, assembled elegantly between different materials, each a hybrid involving ancient artifacts found by the artist in auctions or marketplaces. Adjacent to the sculptures is a series of watercolour paintings and the film ‘Of Men and Gods and Mud’, which explores the relationship between humans, labour, and the environment in northern Sudan. Two sculptures by Ali Cherri will be installed outdoors in the sculpture garden of Gairloch Gardens: The bronze sculpture ‘The Tree of Life’ re-interprets ancient Assyrian reliefs of a sacred tree, while the neon sculpture ‘Les (Sur)Vivants’ poetically references the perils of surviving catastrophe. As part of our summer program, Ali Cherri also presents two evenings of his films as part of ‘Sunset Kino. Stay tuned for an updated Sunset Kino program.

At the Centennial Gallery, the artist presents the film ‘The Watchman’. Set in Cyprus, the film features a soldier on watch at the edge of no-man’s land between the Greek Cypriot south and the Turkish Cypriot north. As with much of Cherri’s work, the film concerns itself with questions of borders and the challenges they enact upon ideas of sovereignty, identity, and geopolitical realities.

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‘Les (Sur)Vivants’, 2025
Glass neon tube, white steel structure, transformers, dimmer switches
153 x 24.1 x 55.9 cm
60 1/4 x 9 1/2 x 22 in
Edition 1/3 + 2 AP
Photo by Charles Roussel

©️ Ali Cherri – Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech

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