mor charpentier
Liliana Porter , Argentina
"Almost There"
Liliana Porter, Red Sand, 2021 - Courtesy of the artist and mor charpentier Paris.
One of Argentina’s most celebrated artists in contemporary culture, Liliana Porter has long questioned the boundary between reality and its representation. She has mastered the art of distilling life and art to simple depths through humorous juxtapositions of incongruous objects. Over the years, Liliana Porter has amassed a prodigious and eccentric collection of figurines, trinkets, toys and souvenirs from travels around the world. These kitsch objects appear regularly in her work, proposing a political, philosophical and existential interpretation from their often unexpected mise-en-scene. Each represents a different era and a different cultural and historical narrative. Liliana Porter delights in manipulating time, history and reality, combining them as if they were dialoguing in an undefined white space. In 1964, she moved to New York, where she has lived and worked ever since. That same year, she founded the New York Graphic Workshop with two artists: Luis Camnitzer and José Guillermo Castillo, with the aim of redefining the practice of printmaking.
Solo show of Liliana Porter
From May 17th to June 19th, 2025
The gallery
Established in Paris since 2010, mor charpentier represents both emerging and well-established artists whose conceptual practices are anchored in the social realities, history and politics of contrasting geographic regions, with special attention to the Global South. By promoting engaged practices internationally, the gallery aims at broadening the knowledge about the crucial debates of the present.
A significant inaugural show with Colombian master Oscar Muñoz fulfilled a void in the French artistic scene, and set a tone for a program focused in content and willing to broaden the spectrum of origins, subjects and identities in the art market. Ever since, a growing number of major international artists have join the gallery. Coming from global backgrounds and different generations, they all share a commitment with either political, feminist, post-colonial, queer or human rights causes.
In 2021 mor charpentier opened a second exhibition space in Bogotá. This expansion was driven by the will to widen the reach of the gallery program to new publics as well as to fulfill the desire of the artists to explore new territories. It also consolidates a long-term bond with the Latin American scene, a strong commitment to support the Colombian artistic ecosystem, and confirms the international projection of the gallery.
Gallery artists
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Anas Albraehe, Saâdane Afif, Lara Almarcegui, Alexander Apóstol, Julieta Aranda, Marwa Arsanios, Kader Attia, Rossella Biscotti, Bianca Bondi, Milena Bonilla, Fredi Casco, Malo Chapuy, Chen Ching-Yuan, Daniel Correa Mejía, Cevdet Erek, Paz Errázuriz, Voluspa Jarpa, Bouchra Khalili, Teresa Margolles, Guadalupe Maravilla, Théo Mercier, Carlos Motta, Oscar Muñoz, Daniel Otero Torres, Yoshua Okón, Uriel Orlow, Nicolás Paris, Nohemí Pérez, Liliana Porter, Rosângela Rennó, Charwei Tsai, Sylvie Selig, Hajra Waheed, Rayan Yasmineh
