The Michel Rein gallery in Paris will exhibit for the first time French artist (and founder of Crash) Frank Perrin. Perrin has been exploring the notion of post-capitalism for more than two decades, compiling in the process a compendium of our contemporary obsessions.  From Joggers to Yachts via Défilés (Fashion Shows), Perrin’s Postcapitalism project is a metaphysical tracking shot that pans across the foundational ideas of our time.

The Blind test series, his first solo exhibition at the Michel Rein gallery represents a turning point in his work, heralding in a new phase of his research.  This new series is constructed out of images of struggles, subversions, submissions and pictures of the advanced capitalism that is increasingly desertifying our world.  The images are reversed as negatives, representing an ideal world that is turned on its head, and printed directly on cardboard sheets. These cardboard sheets are then perforated with a word in Braille and mounted on mirrored surfaces. The sighted see themselves through the perforations and become true blind-watchers in action. A visual « psychoanalyst » of post-capitalist schizophrenia for more than two decades, with his new Blind test series, Frank Perrin lays the first stones of a secret encyclopedia of insubordination, as well as a mental immersion in revolts with a blind dimension.

Perrin’s work has been shown in more than sixty exhibitions at home and abroad, including the Daelim Museum (Seoul), Les Abattoirs – FRAC Occitanie (Toulouse), Centre Pompidou Metz and Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt). His works can be found in prestigious public and private collections in Europe, the United States and Asia.

INFORMATION

Michel Rein Gallery

42 rue de Turenne 75003 Paris

‘Pray Amore Combat’ Opening Saturday 05.02.2022

Open from 05.02.2022 – 19.03.2022

Photo Courtesy of Michel Rein of Frank Perrin’s Work Entitled ‘Pray,’ 2022.