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Laure Genillard is pleased to present PALOMAR, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles–based artist Brian O’Connell (b. 1972, Leuven, Belgium). The artist continues to investigate photographic processes, sculptural form and colour, taking Italo Calvino’s novel Palomar (1983) as a sequential model.

The works in the show – a 16mm film, gum bichromate prints and sculptural objects – take their titles from Calvino’s book, formally and conceptually evoking the author’s distribution of interests. Throughout the exhibition, works mirror one another, as well as Calvino’s chapter titles, revealing and …