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“Intimate Visions” at White Cube Paris: A Seductive Dance Between Art, Identity, and Emotion

“Intimate Visions” at White Cube Paris: A Seductive Dance Between Art, Identity, and Emotion March 19, 2025Art Events, Paris0 Comments

“Intimate Visions” at White Cube Paris: Where Art and Emotion Collide in a Mesmerizing Dance

There are exhibitions that intrigue, others that impress, and then there are those that pull you in, whispering secrets only the heart can translate. Intimate Visions, opening at White Cube Paris from March 7 to May 10, 2025, is firmly in the latter category – a curation that is both deeply personal and profoundly universal.

Bringing together 150 years of artistic expression, this dazzling collection – curated by Clémande Burgevin Blachman and Mathieu Paris – weaves a tale of intimacy, emotion, and transformation through painting, sculpture, furniture, and ceramics. Expect a breathtaking juxtaposition of eras and aesthetics, where the classical elegance of Aristide Maillol’s female forms meets the raw, unfiltered expressions of Tracey Emin. Where the intricate symbolism of Gustav Klimtconverses with the rebellious energy of Sterling Ruby. This is a meeting of past and present, restraint and abandon, tradition and disruption – and it’s utterly mesmerizing.

A New Kind of Conversation

“This exhibition is a tapestry of emotion, exploring the tension between what we conceal and what we reveal,” says Burgevin Blachman, a Parisian designer whose deep-rooted connection to fashion, literature, and fine craftsmanship is reflected in every piece she selects.

There is an undeniable fluidity to this exhibition, where the so-called “major” and “minor” arts dissolve into one another – a chair, a vase, a sculpture, a painting – each carrying its own weight, its own whisper of history.

And this is precisely what makes Intimate Visions feel alive.

Each work, from Victor Hugo’s lesser-known visual explorations to Hughie Lee-Smith’s enigmatic dreamscapes, offers an invitation: to step closer, to feel, to engage. The dialogue is unspoken but electric.

Paris as the Eternal Muse

In many ways, it feels only natural that this exhibition is taking place in Paris, a city that has long mastered the art of intimacy – from candlelit salons where poets and painters bared their souls to the ateliers where designers stitch desire into fabric.

Intimate Visions continues a storied tradition of groundbreaking exhibitions at White Cube Paris, following in the footsteps of Jerry Stafford’s “Rara Avis” in 2023 and Michèle Lamy’s provocative “Sweet Lust” in 2022.

It is a reminder that Paris doesn’t just house art – it breathes it.

An Invitation to Feel

In a world where we consume art at breakneck speed—scrolling, clicking, glancing—Intimate Visions asks something different of us.

It asks us to linger. To trace the contours of a sculpture with our gaze.
To get lost in the softness of an oil painting.
To recognize something of ourselves in the raw vulnerability of a drawing.

This is not an exhibition for the indifferent observer. This is for those who want to feel art in their bones.

So if you find yourself in Paris this spring, step through the doors of White Cube Paris. Let Intimate Visions pull you in, and see what it reveals.

White Cube Paris, 7 March – 10 May 2025

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