Paris Internationale22.10.2025–26.10.2025Ana Navas, Anousha Payne
Sperling is delighted to return to Paris Internationale with a duo presentation by Ana Navas and Anousha Payne. Both artists have had remarkable years, marked by significant exhibitions that expanded their practices across diverse contexts. Ana Navas participated in BEDROCK, the 2025 Liverpool Biennial curated by Marie-Anne McQuay, while Anousha Payne unveiled her solo exhibition Murmurations at the historic Zeyrek Çinili Hamam in Istanbul, curated by Anlam de Coster.
A central question in Ana Navas’s practice is that of influence, which is shaped more by chance than by direct causation and operates in both directions. Where do artists find their inspiration? Are all creations inherently composites of the past or is it the act of reception and reinterpretation that ultimately brings the past to life?
Anousha Payne’s work navigates the boundaries between personal experience, fiction, and myth, investigating how meaning is lost and gained through shifts in time, culture, and media. Her paintings and ceramics exist as hybrid objects, emphasizing the fluid connections between humans, animals, the natural world, and inanimate forms.
As in previous series, Ana Navas’s latest melted-glass works blend historical and fictional elements to question the hierarchy between “original” and “copy”. Drawing from depictions of women in modernist paintings by artists like Gauguin, Matisse, and Macke, Navas isolates and liberates certain aspects of their personalities from stereotypical portrayals. In the process, traces of direct reference are ultimately erased, and her works’ titles often arise from spontaneous remarks by friends and colleagues, who interpret them like Rorschach cards.
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Paris Internationale — 11th Edition
Preview (by invitation only)
Tuesday, 21 October — 10am to 8pm
Public Opening Hours
Wednesday, 22 October — 12pm to 7pm
Thursday, 23 October — 12pm to 7pm
Friday, 24 October — 12pm to 8pm
Saturday, 25 October — 12pm to 8pm
Sunday, 26 October — 12pm to 6pm
New Location
Paris Internationale
Rond-point des Champs-Élysées
75008 Paris
Métro: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Lines 1 and 9)