Sheriff Gallery

Galerie Gomis launches its residency at Sheriff Gallery in Paris with the exhibition ‘New Suns’ by David Ụzọchukwu, curated by Ekow Eshun.

The exhibition will present a series of photographs by Ụzọchukwu that depict Black figures within haunting natural landscapes, from charred forests to midnight seas and saffron deserts. These surreal works reflect on the historical marginalisation of people of colour in narratives about the natural world, often depicted as wilderness to be conquered by settlers and adventurers. At once intimate and apocalyptic, the works also evoke climate change and its disproportionate impact on the Global South. Through this reimaging of the relationship between Blackness and nature, the artist offers speculative visions of coexistence and renewal.

Eshun takes inspiration from Afrofuturist writer Octavia E. Butler’s parable, “There is nothing new under the sun, but there are news suns”, to position the show as an invocation to go beyond the everyday in order to embrace new and hopeful possibilities for the future.

With
David Ụzọchukwu

Ta’ayush, coexistence in Arabic. Also represents a Judeo-Arab movement that unites various multicultural organizations working towards peace. This movement invites us to explore the concept of coexistence, a notion that each individual may interpret in their own way but which holds particular relevance in a territory like Palestine.

A land both inhabited and colonized by many people over the centuries, Palestine has been shaped by its myriad forms of cohabitation, making it a space both rich in diversity and deeply scarred by its history.

With a background in photojournalism and mediation in conflict zones, Anaïs Laforêt develops through her works an intimate and committed dialogue between art and humanity. Through this series of photographs of suspended moments, the artist reveals the subtleties of life under occupation, between hope and despair.

This exhibition is a visual testimony and a charitable initiative aimed at raising funds to support local communities. 70% of the funds raised will be donated to selected organizations.

With
Anais Laforêt

A teenager from a foster home, caught at a crucial juncture in his life, with an ongoing criminal trial, walks with an adult. This is his last chance—a 1,550 km journey through winter’s harshest landscapes, a closed-door experience spanning three months. Each day is a choice: walk forward or return to the past situation. The road becomes a metaphor, where each step might signify a new beginning or a return to old patterns.

From the very beginning, this project has been supported by Sheriff Gallery, whose backing provided not just logistical support but also a space for Edoardo to engage in deeper conversations about the intersection of art, life, and the profound relationship between artist and subject.

With
Edoardo de Ruggiero

“BELONG” is based on a long lasting conversation and relationship between artist and activist Aleks Orbeck and the Ju/’Hoansi San people of the Kalahari Desert. The exhibition enhances a poetic vision on the strength and sustenance of living in harmony with nature, without missing to be an urgent reminder of the ongoing erosion of cultural knowledge, indigenous language and belonging.

The Ju/‘hoansi San are considered to be the world’s oldest culture and have been carrying within them the wisdom of survival, adaptation, and profound connection to nature for well over 150,000 years.
They are our living ancestors, embodying the earliest chapters of human history and offering us a link to the origin of what it means to belong.

Aleksandra Orbeck’s work calls to reconnect with the wisdom of indigenous people before it is lost, emphasizing that to heal the earth, we must first heal our fractured sense of belonging.

With
Aleksandra Orbeck

The photographic series “From the Ocean to the Forest” delves into the practice of capturing dolls in various settings, presenting a compelling exploration of the nuanced interplay between fantasy and reality, desire, imagination, and fleeting nostalgia.

Set against the backdrop of Japanese scenery, the series juxtaposes these doll-like figures within clichéd landscapes, serving
as a poignant reflection of the myriad narratives and visual tropes that saturate our cultural perception of romantic ideals.

With
Alessia Gunawan

Taylah Mortensen’s debut exhibit « Al-Ghorba » is a product of her reconciling with a multifaceted identity and the culmination of generations long of cultural push and pull.

The Arabic word « AI Ghorba » is difficult to translate directly in English; it’s a term that encompasses the feeling of homesickness and uneasiness when living in a country that isn’t your own.

In Taylah’s words - « My teta used to say her first heart break was leaving Lebanon, and so I returned to mend it. My grandparents left Lebanon, fleeing a war to raise my mother. My mother took my sisters and I back, raising us in our culture. My father pushed us to leave, pursuing an American dream. Now, my homecoming is the product of decades of cultural oscillation, culminating with a gravitational pull back to my center, Lebanon.
From border to border and back to Beirut, Taylah explores the stillness that lives among the chaos and core memories of her first home.

With
Taylah Mortensen

The meeting of Mélissa and Carmen, like their work, is visceral.

From a shared womb that screams in silence, these perfectionists bring forth their bittersweet obsessions from human matter.

“Beauty Anatomia“ is a deep exploration of the female form. In this project, Mélissa, through her lens and creative vision, and Carmen, by bringing the image to life, have sought to illuminate the complex and often hidden narratives that reside in the female body.

Their photographic exploration is not a simple representation; it is a silent questioning, a muffled cry, an extraction. From their shared introversion, an Aphrodite is born—a depersonalized yet grounded sculpture that contemplates itself without seeing, absorbed by the abyssal aspiration of a body louder than its thoughts.

With
Mélissa de Araujo
Carmen Bado

« Sacred Wound » invites us to explore the vibrant Faubourg of Osu, nestled within the bustling city of Accra, Ghana.

Fascinated by spirits and rituals, James delves into how myths and personal beliefs shape the daily lives of Osu’s inhabitants, serving as sources of power, hope, and sometimes despair.

His debut art show in Paris offers a glimpse into a world where time seems to stand still, blending the spiritual with the mundane and revealing the mystical within everyday life.

With
James Tennessee Briandt

Amidst the vibrant atmosphere of Paris during the Olympics, Skateboarding makes its historic return to the Games. Sheriff Gallery collaborates with the non-profit SKATEISTAN, exhibiting a series of photographs by Juliette Cassidy, as well as excerpts from other photographers and films documenting 16 years of SKATEISTAN’s movement in skateboarding and creative learning for at-risk girls and boys all over the world.

We hope you find inspiration in these stories around SKATEISTAN, and will consider supporting their work. You can participate by purchasing a raffle ticket for a chance to win one of Juliette Cassidy’s featured prints (the winning ticket will be drawn at the closing event on August 8th), or by making a direct donation either in-gallery or through SKATEISTAN’s website.

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With
SKATEISTAN
Juliette Cassidy

“HOW WAS YOUR DREAM ?”, by Thaddé Comar, is a compelling photographic exploration realized during the intense Hong Kong protests spanning from June to October 2019. This project delves into the contemporary evolution of protest and insurrection within societies increasingly characterized by pervasive surveillance and control.

Recognized by the Swiss Design Awards 2023 and the 7L Photography Grand Jury Prize of the villa Noailles, among others, “HOW WAS YOUR DREAM ?” has been acclaimed for its insightful contribution to the discourse on social movements, control systems, and the ongoing struggle for individuality in the face of expansive societal controls.

Since 2022, Sheriff Projects is partnering with the International festival of fashion, photography and accessories - Hyères, following its commitment and support to emerging talents in the creative industries. All prints of this exhibition were produced by Sheriff Projects’ Art Lab.

With
Thaddé Comar

Step in, sit and play, surrounded by the visual alphabet of multi-disciplinary artist Alex Anyaegbunam, born in Ireland in 1993.

Images always come first – whether it be in film or music, where Alex is celebrated for his sounds and lyrics under the stage name Rejjie Snow.

For his debut art show in Paris, Alex Anyaegbunam presents a series of mixed media paintings that proclaim a new language, a vocabulary that stands strong with no need to prove itself.

With
Alex Anyaegbunam “Rejjie Snow”

EXHIBITION & SUNGLASSES COLLECT

SHADES OF LOVE // windy roads and spectacular views lead us through the Hunza valley, known for its silk road heritage and secluded location. Home to striking mountain peaks, ancient history and a vibrant tapestry of people, its vast beauty is often veiled from its habitants due to an overlooked and perpetual issue: altitude blindness. The non-profit SHADES OF LOVE provides eyecare in the world’s most remote high-altitude regions, distributing second-hand sunglasses and raising awareness through education. Photographer Cornelius Kaess captured their latest trip to the north of Pakistan, a voyage centered around exchange, cherishing encounters and intercultural connection, eye-to-eye.

Join us for the fundraising print sale for SHADES OF LOVE and help us collect sunglasses for their next trip. As a rather spare fashion item in wintery Paris, your sunglasses will serve their purpose in high-altitude regions. We’ll be accepting Sunglass Donations in the Gallery throughout the duration of the exhibition. BRING YOUR SHADES !

With
SHADES OF LOVE
Cornelius Kaess
Sebastian Berthold

“If there’s space I’ll stay, if there’s time I’ll sing” is a collective exhibition that brings together narratives of artists who create work that chooses Armenia as both a physical and a cultural setting. An ever-fragmented portrait of this transitory space unfolds in photographs, poetry, and an object and a sound piece.

With
Patrick Bienert
Suzanna Spertsyan
Antoine Daviaud
Nensi Avetisian

In association with Soul Food Paris and Ere Collective

Throughout the year, we have organized a series of workshops between 8 professional photographers and 5 young Soul Food members*, including museum visits, street photography and portrait workshops, as well as insights into the processes of printing and retouching of fine art images.

IN/ VISIBLE, a collective fundraiser and exhibition curated by Sophie Strobele, intends to contribute to a positive discourse about migration by highlighting the universal possibilities of art to render visible the human aspects of migration, the importance of cultural diversity and the limitless potential of positive integration. It asks the question: What type of visibility does society allow migrants and refugees to have, and how does this impact their representation in the public eye?

*Young Soul Food members are unaccompanied minors, young migrants and refugee youth between the ages of 14 and 22.

A girl with a bright star on her forehead, devils, bears, and St. Basil — you can see these in both folklore books and reality during the annual Ukrainian holiday called ‘Malanka’. On the evening of January 13th, after months of costume preparation, Ukrainians organized this strange carnival in the Bukovyna region in honor of the holiday.

Daniil Kotliar, a self-taught Ukrainian photographer, documented the Malanka celebration in 2021. For him, to lend visibility to disappearing Ukrainian folklore and cult holidays is a way to both learn and preserve collective practices of Ukrainian culture and memory in the present world.

Self-taught Tymur Postovyï began painting as a reflection on identity, inadequacy and protest within the realities of contemporary Ukraine.
His practice started by intervening in the streets with large-scale abstract graffitis, and evolved into painting and sculpture loaded with unique symbolism, moving between the conscious and the subconscious, madness and anticipation, urban landscapes and the natural world.
Overripe, past expiration date, is it something to drop or to take along, as fertilizer for new grounds?

Like a River by Daniel Jack Lyons ; an anthropological exploration of identity, transformation and coming-of-age amongst marginalised communities in the heart of the Amazon. Daniel Jack Lyons’ debut monograph continues the American artist’s long-term commitments to visualising the social and political rights of under-represented communities.

With Like a River, Lyons empowers the trans and queer communities of the region, exploring how deep indigenous traditions and modern identity politics meet in a celebratory, safe space, deep in the lush canopies and vegetation of the rainforest.

The artist Elizaveta Porodina creates images that challenge time and category. Her latest personal series, “Fuerteventura”, offers another chapter of her ongoing collaboration with make up artist and muse Cecile Paravina, and stylist Flora Huddart. It presents itself as a question, asking spectators to investigate their innermost emotions and vulnerabilities in a pressing contemplation of what we are constantly attempting to define–beauty, as both portrait and landscape.

Porodina creates a world of mythical sirens that equally allures and unsettles. Her muse Cecile Paravina and the island of Fuerteventura are the principal characters of the story, acting as portals to a dimension unknown.

The exhibit showcases photographs made across Ukraine between 2015 and 2020, resulting in a collective portrait of being young in Ukraine.
Patrick Bienert is a German photographer specialized in long-term portrait, landscape and documentary photography projects.
Patrick predominantly documents youth culture and transformation on the borders of Eastern Europe.

The exhibition « La Plaine » (« The Plain ») brings together Andrey Zouari’s most recent work. On show are paintings and an intimate archive of drawings and research, asking the question of an imaginative survival and how the future might be reinvented.

It invites the viewer to take ownership of the sketches, the « traces » of an artistic research project and to embrace this ideal plain through an intimate encounter with its various inhabitants.

Sound Design by Polocorp & Hēran Soun

Marco Ribeiro is a French-Brazilian independent fashion designer based in Paris. He founded MARCO — a brand characterized by his whimsical, bold, colorful and sculptural designs. Much of his work is inspired by the playful memories of his own childhood and the strong women who shaped it, as well as his personal experience of emigrating from Brazil to Paris.

For the launch of Collection VI : MaRCoLOco AW 23/4, Marco invited people to experience his universe at Sheriff Gallery, a space that aims to evoke the feeling that has inspired this collection.

As a continuation of the event I-M-A-G-I-N-A-T-I-O-N-S, the Sheriff Gallery presents a solo exhibition of Korean artist Rala Choi, Winner of the Photography Price at the 37th Festival of Fashion, Photography and Accessoires in Hyéres.

The autodidact photographer, known for the use of rich, saturated, boldly contrasting colors and textures, blurs the lines between photography and painting. Through the practice of photography, Rala Choi discovered an affinity for the color Blue, the deep hue that reigns this artist’s solo exhibition.

In their effort to support next generation creatives, Sheriff Projects and Kitten celebrated the whims of the visionary, the unknown and the imagined at the Palais de Tokyo.

The exhibit showed the photographic works of Rala Choi, winner of the Grand Prix de la Photography at the 37th Hyères Festival, and Adeline Care, who received special mention of the Jury at Hyères.

Alongside the photographs, Sophie Strobele invited other emerging artists to create under the constraint of only using recyclables, featuring the work of Maya Agam, Charlotte Collet, Théo De Gueltzl, Linus Gruszweski, Lesya Godfrey, Larissa Hofmann, Alice Jacobs, Mila Taylor Young, Moffat Takadiwa and Marisca Voskamp Van Noord.

A collection of abstract and documentary photographs from Olgaç Bozalp’s travels throughout Nepal’s villages, towns and Himalayas.
With Art Direction by Jessica Pichet, the exhibition and publication highlight the duality between spirituality and modernity and embraces the theme of Nepal’s use of rich colour.

Mysticism is a crucial source of collective power and collective identity, fronting a globalised, colonised and industrialised world. In the village of Djimande, in Casamance, mystical constructions and traditional belief based on animism are still being practiced in close symbiose with the environment.
Photographer Charlotte Lapalus, who joined ADE six years ago, has been since documenting and collaborating with the people of Djimande - especially women - to create a visual journey into the sacred world of this wondrous place in Casamance.
All proceeds from this exhibition will be donated to Autour de l’Enfant.

An exhibition showcasing the result of a year-long collaboration with the young students of the 0-93. Lab and many creative minds from the Grand Paris and afar.
Through fashion design and visual arts, they experiment and explore new territories beyond the boundaries of reality.
0-93. Lab is an eternal construction site where walls are broken down.

Whitelies is pleased to present “Identity”, a photography exhibition coinciding with the launch of the magazine’s 11th issue. Whitelies is widely recognized as a cultural and visual conversation between the Asia Pacific and what we perceive as “the West”.

Featuring Chan Wai Kwong, Stefan Dotter, Lena C. Emery, Takashi Homma, Zhong Lin, Sakiko Nomura, Stephane Sednaoui, Charlotte Stouvenot, Osamu Yokonami and Bennie Gay.

The work is a collaboration between both Brazilian artists, focusing on the Tupinambá cape, an ancestral and sacred feather ornament that was made and used by native Brazilians until the 16th century, and revisited by Glicéria in the early 2000s.

By Fernanda Liberti and Glicéria Tupinambá.

Understructures, with the support of Sheriff Projects, presents ‘OBERIH’, a publication and a fundraising project for people affected by the war in Ukraine.
Edited, designed & published by understructures:
Daša Anosova, Timur Akhmetov, Vitya Glushchenko, Olha Lyubarska, Anna Riabova, Yuli Rudenko.

celebrating trees as symbols for symbiose and collaboration; acknowledging their sensory abilities, communication skills, climatic influence and spiritual power. From June 16th to July 16th at Sheriff Gallery.

With
Theo De Gueltzl
Octave Marsal
Lena C. Emery
Tahuanty Jacanamijoy
Pedro de la Fuente
KAO
Estelle Hanania
Hans Neumann
Laurence Ellis
Joachim Mueller-Ruchholz
Bianca Lee Vasquez

Displaying over 60 images, objects, video installations and everything in between, the exhibit takes a journey back and forth between multiple territories and collaborations, photographers and artistic directors, images and clothes, Paris and Thailand, traditional and modern, digital and analog.

Baby Production, ERE Foundation, Artissue Gallery and Sheriff Projects initiated an exhibition and print sale of 31+ images (years of Ukrainian Independence) for Ukraine, solidarity, freedom and peace. All sales will go directly to the NBU Humanitarian Assistance Fund.

Sheriff Projects, Stefan Dotter, Sabrina Herzog and Ere Foundation has united the work of 100 engaged photographers around a print sale, dedicated to the evacuation and resettlement of 8 Afgan photographers.