Liam Gillick, Installation View – Rest area racks 1-3, (2011), courtesy Air de Paris

Currently held within Air de Paris are two simultaneous complimentary exhibitions. Liam Gillick is responsible for a series of works entitled Sit in the Machine, which features two contradictory films detailing a glamorized yet banal setting regarding the mechanics of car manufacture. Intertwined with the exhibition is a relaxation area that mimics the workers’ rest areas at the factory. Gillick thus constructs a social act, relying on the spectators’ interactions, creating a nonobjectual relational experience.

Liam Gillick, Installation View, (2012), courtesy Air de Paris

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All images Caroline Claisse for Art Observed.

In his third solo exhibition at Air de Paris, Rob Pruitt toys with the idea of “acceptable” art. The self-titled show puts on display two new bodies of work from Pruitt- the first is a series that takes wall art from IKEA and reinvents it as richly layered paintings, and the second a pair of cardboard robots, made from found materials.

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