After captivating millions of visitors in Tokyo, Miami and Milan, Leandro Erlich’s work is now the subject of a major exhibition at the Grand Palais, curated by Fabrice Bousteau and featuring the artist’s most emblematic works where perspectives shift, architectures become distorted and reality transforms before our eyes.
Exploring the mechanisms of perception, Leandro Erlich created spectacular installations that blur the boundaries between the real and the surreal. At the intersection of sculpture, installation and architecture, his immersive, human-scale works, take the form of devices activated by the viewer’s presence.
Conceived in collaboration with curator Fabrice Bousteau, the exhibition unfolds as a progressive journey made up of fourteen monumental and iconic installations : levitating boats, weightless clouds, modernist architectures turned into infinite labyrinths, and even an Haussmann-style building tilted horizontally that visitors can climb.
Several installations, created especially for this retrospective, play on the inversion of viewpoint. What is observed from the outside transforms once inside. Perspectives shift, and reference poins waver. Punctuated with artistic, literary, and architectural references, the exhibition also traces the artist’s trajectory and questions the way we perceive reality.
