Marking the 20th Anniversary of the Espaces Louis Vuitton and the 10th Anniversary of the Fondation Louis Vuitton's Hors-les-murs programme, an exhibition devoted to the work of globally acclaimed South Asian diaspora artist Rina Banerjee debuts in collaboration with Louis Vuitton, building worlds from wreckage, beautifully charged and deliberately unsettling. The U.S.-based artist transforms ostrich eggs, glass chandeliers, feathers, and colonial-era textiles into towering feminine sculptures that pulse with energy. Trained first as a polymer engineer, then as a painter at Yale, she brings an unusually precise intelligence to materials most artists would overlook. Her figures echo Hindu goddesses with installations cascading from ceilings like fever dreams and works on paper that are at once amusing and thought-provoking. Throughout her body of work, she interrogates colonialism, migration, and identity without sacrificing beauty or, crucially, humor. The viewer, she says, is both delighted and perplexed. And that tension is exactly the point; LouisVuitton.com; RinaBanerjee.com.

Words Elora Shire    |    Installation Photo Jeremie Souteyrat   |    Works on Paper c/o The Artist & Perrotin