Summary • Nina Chanel Abney's Now What? Or What Else? will be on view at Perrotin Paris from September 6 through October 11 • In her latest body of work, the artist interrogates what it means to survive in a time of never-ending crisis
The future feels closer now — uncertain, uneasy; not nearly as far as we once thought it to be. Our times are some defined by collapse, not as a singular rupture, but rather a low, drowning hum that undergirds the everyday.
Enter: Now What? Or What Else?, Nina Chanel Abney's forthcoming solo debut at Perrotin Paris, fresh off her representation by the French gallery. In this new suite of works, Abney turns her attention towards dysfunction across ecological, political and cultural lines. In a time where disaster is no longer “exceptional,” she poses a