Here Are 11 Essential Gallery Exhibitions You Need To See This Month
Bernadette Despujols, Niki de Saint Phalle, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, and more are on view in exhibitions opening across the globe.
Paloma Baygua
April 1, 2024
“Exquisite Cuerpo” by Bernadette Despujols
Where: Rachel Uffner Gallery
When: April 26 - June 29
Why It’s Worth a Look: Despujols’s “Exquisite Cuerpo” explores themes of family, womanhood, and ecological consciousness. The title, drawing from the Spanish word for “body,” cues into Despujols’s focus on intimate portraiture, particularly of her matriarchal family and the transformative experience of motherhood.
Know Before You Go: The show takes inspiration from the childhood game “Exquisite Corpse” that Despujols enjoyed, in which participants take turns drawing sections of a body on a piece of paper, folding it, and passing it on to the next artist. When unfolded, the paper reveals a figure composed of disjointed sections.
