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Dreams and Definitions: Amanda Wall & Joseph Kosuth at Almine Rech

Dreams and Definitions: Amanda Wall & Joseph Kosuth at Almine Rech September 3, 2025Art Events, ParisOff

Between Intimacy and Inquiry: Amanda Wall & Joseph Kosuth at Almine Rech

Paris in September always feels like a return to rhythm—streets alive with ideas, galleries brimming with new provocations. This season, Almine Rech presents two exhibitions that couldn’t be more different in language, yet equally magnetic in their pull: Amanda Wall’s Beddy Bye at Avenue Matignon, and Joseph Kosuth’s The Question on rue de Turenne.

Amanda Wall, Beddy Bye, 2025 – Oil on linen, 152.4 x 203.2 cm – Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech Photo: Matthew Kroening

Amanda Wall, the Los Angeles–based artist, invites us under the sheets—literally. Her new series shifts perspective to the intimate vantage point of the bed, where bodies blur and dissolve: boys pressed cheek-to-cheek, girls tangled in tender knots, cherries looping around cables mistaken for lipsticks. Wall’s canvases vibrate between voyeurism and tenderness, surreal fragments of memory and desire stitched together like dreams half-remembered. There is something deliciously disarming in her ability to transform the bed—a sanctuary of rest, sex, and even work—into a stage where identity, isolation, and digital-age memory play out with sensuous immediacy.

Installation view of Joseph Kosuth, Tabula Rasa (14 Times), Almine Rech Shanghai, 2022 (Detail) – Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech Photo: Alessandro Wang

If Wall whispers through fevered color and entangled figures, Joseph Kosuth answers with the cool rigor of concept. Marking his 80th year, The Question is both homage and provocation: monumental clocks emblazoned with philosophical citations, neon texts that pulse with the power of language, and his seminal dictionary definitions that redefined what art could be. A pioneer of conceptual art since the 1960s, Kosuth continues to strip away the ornamental, forcing us to confront meaning itself—time, words, perception—laid bare in luminous clarity.

Together, Wall and Kosuth sketch the extremes of our cultural landscape: the private and the universal, the sensual and the cerebral. In one, the body melts into abstraction; in the other, language crystallizes into form. And it is precisely in this contrast that Almine Rech’s September program finds its brilliance.

Amanda Wall, Beddy Bye
11 September – 11 October 2025
Almine Rech, Avenue Matignon, Paris

Joseph Kosuth, The Question
12 September – 11 October 2025
Almine Rech, Avenue Matignon, Paris

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