David Zwirner is pleased to announce Déménagement, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by American artist Raymond Saunders (b. 1934) at the gallery’s Paris location. Curated by Ebony L. Haynes, this presentation is Saunders’s second solo exhibition with David Zwirner and marks the artist’s first exhibition in Paris in twenty years.
Saunders once called Paris—where he kept a studio, spent summers, and regularly exhibited during the 1990s and 2000s—“a home away from home,” embracing the French capital as a generative place for art making and community building. The city offered a hopeful environment and freer way of life with fewer of the social and racial constraints endemic to American culture, one that held opportunities for artists to be in broader conversation with audiences and institutions at large. Saunders acted on this by opening his studio as a residency of sorts to his students visiting from California, offering them some of the same opportunities that he was given in decades prior.
