Bharti Kher presents "The Sun Splitting Stones" at Perrotin in Paris, on view through December 20, marking a significant return to painting after focusing on sculpture. The exhibition features works created during the Covid pandemic, including her "Weather Paintings" series on circular teak panels, which explore themes of intuition, cosmology, and the balance of masculine and feminine forces through spirals, triangles, and egg-like forms.
The exhibition matters because it represents Kher's most comprehensive presentation of paintings to date, showcasing her evolution as an artist who has built a career on defying easy categorization. By pivoting from her renowned sculptural practice back to painting, Kher demonstrates her ongoing artistic reinvention and challenges audiences to embrace ambiguity, as reflected in her directive to "make no sense" and "confuse and convince equally."