At a glance
Nothing is quite what it seems: Leandro Erlich turns familiar architecture into impossible spaces where you become part of the illusion.
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Artlovers Tip
Bring someone with you. Erlich’s art becomes much more fun when one person enters the illusion and the other sees — and photographs — what is actually happening.
The most interesting moment often comes before you understand the trick. That brief confusion between what your eyes see and what your brain knows is exactly where Erlich’s art operates.
Artlovers mood: Playful · Surreal · Immersive · Mind-bending · Social
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Fourteen monumental installations transform the Grand Palais into a playground of impossible architecture, mirrors, altered perspectives and optical illusions. Visitors do not simply observe the works: their bodies and movements complete them. It is Erlich's first major exhibition in France.
About the artist
Leandro Erlich (b. 1973) is an Argentine contemporary artist internationally known for immersive installations that make ordinary architecture behave in extraordinary ways.
His work also connects strongly with Surrealism through its transformation of ordinary reality, although Erlich belongs to a contemporary conceptual and installation-art context.
Worth travelling for?
This is contemporary art at its most immediate, playful and accessible, but it is not just Instagram bait. Behind Erlich’s spectacular illusions is a clever question: how much of what we call reality is simply what we expect to see?
Leandro Erlich
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