carlier | gebauer is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new work by Belgian artist Michel François. This is his seventh exhibition with the gallery and his first exhibition at carlier | gebauer’s Madrid location. 

Michel François’ works form an elusive alphabet, the syntax of which shifts according to the site of exhibition and their confrontation with other objects. His practice thereby articulates a web of ever-fluctuating connections and connotations—a permanent work in progress. A rhizomatic logic pervades his artistic production, which resists hierarchies among objects and instead privileges moments of encounter, relation, and contingency. As Deleuze and
Guattari write of the rhizome, François’ ephemeral installations are “always in the middle, between things, interbeing, intermezzo.”