Alexandre Khondji
Sorry Sun
Group Exhibition
September 16, 2025 to October 31, 2025
Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris, France
Exhibition Text
Drawing on fragmented narration, layered stories, and shifting temporalities, the practices of Saodat Ismailova, Alexandre Khondji, and Hélène Yamba-Guimbi trace a cartography of disruption. Spanning moving image, installation, and sculpture, their works allude to the fault lines of our time—the erosion of collective ideals, disillusionment with technological promises, and the urgency of the ecological crisis—while popular beliefs, stories, and rituals resurface as fragments of memory and subtle forms of resistance. Suspended between clarity and ambiguity, the familiar and the intangible, their gestures seem to inhabit an intermediate space. The exhibition Sorry Sun unfolds on this very threshold, its title evoking an ambivalent light: at once tender and scorching, revealing and disorienting, vivid and weary.
Exhibition text by curator Liberty Adrien
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Artist Biography
Alexandre Khondji's practice is rooted in research-driven site-specificity. His works, varied in form and complexity, delicately balance intervention with the properties of the contexts they inhabit.
Khondji lives and works in Paris. His first solo exhibition with the gallery took place in 2025. His work has also been exhibited at the 4th Okayama Art Summit, the Fondation Pernod Ricard in Paris, the Museum für moderne Kunst (MMK) in Frankfurt, the Capc Musée d’art contemporain in Bordeaux, and the LUMA Foundation in Arles.