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For Sarah Sze, art is equal parts observation and participation. Her monumental installations are intricately layered like a spider web of disparate images spanning history and personal experience, inviting onlookers to roam in and around a cosmic matrix that conflates physical and digital experiences with micro and macro perspectives. At Gagosian's rue de Ponthieu location in Paris, the New York-based artist is showcasing her Pictures at an Exhibition, which previously debuted at the inaugural Thailand Biennale. Set amidst a dimly lit space, Sze's video installation takes over the entire first floor of the gallery, as tiny paper screens are brought to life through video and light, resulting in a kaleidoscopic effect that pours across the space. "The boundaries of my artwork are never fram...

Saatchi Yates presents a provocative two-person exhibition featuring the works of Nokukhanya Langa and Bruce Nauman. This show dives deep into the absurd, drawing a line between Langa’s radical contemporary art and Nauman’s conceptual films.Langa’s new "Black Paintings" are paired with a survey of Nauman’s groundbreaking black and white films. Her Post-Minimalist aesthetic, filled with abstract motifs, lines, dots, and scribbles, complements Nauman’s repetitive, task-like exercises. Langa's canvases, with their cryptic phrases and meaningless arrows, critique contemporary post-internet culture, highlighting futility, alienation, and online identity.Both artists explore the interplay between image and language. Nauman’s films, dating back to 1965, feature repetitive actions that spotlight t...

Paris Saint-Germain may be a Parisian football club but it's got a particularly avid global following, especially in Japan, where, over the last decade, it's partnered with Edifice to open a line of special stores. Now, the two are celebrating a decade of partnership — with a little help from Amsterdam-born, Paris-based artist Pieter Ceizer — by opening a weekend-long "Paris Loves Japan" pop-up by PSG's Parc Des Princes Stadium.At the center of this pop-up is a new take on Ceizer's famed Woody sculpture line and a duo of hand-drawn T-shirt designs. The hand-painted Woody sculptures are dressed in PSG's familiar blue, red and white palette, feature the club's crest, read "Paris" on one side and "Tokyo" on the other, and, in a fine bit of fan service add "Est Magique" in small text on both s...