At the Parisian gallery Air de Paris, American artist Joseph Grigely is presenting Remains, a solo exhibition featuring a series of remains from daily life — a scrap of discarded paper, a pair of upside-down buckets, an empty storage rack, a photograph of someone singing from the New York Times — that are unmade and remade, becoming reified extensions of their previous reality.

In these objects, captions have been removed; colors have been changed; wood and cast iron have been replaced with crystal urethane. They were once useful objects — the papers carried conversations, the buckets carried paint, the stove produced heat, the storage rack held paintings, the newspaper conveyed timely information — but now their usefulness has transpired into a sort of uselessness; they have become, like the elements of classical still-life paintings, a part of a world ignored.

Through 1 December 2012
Joseph Grigely: Remains
Air de Paris Gallery
32 rue Louise Weiss, Paris