French artist Pol Taburet has opened a solo exhibition titled *Paranoia as Method* at Villa Medici in Rome, on view through July 15. The show features sculptures, large-format paintings, and charcoal drawings created during his spring residency at the institution, transforming the villa’s gardens, loggias, and salons into tense psychic landscapes. Taburet’s figures drift between human and animal, evoking transformation, mortality, and spiritual tension, drawing on his Caribbean roots, voodoo traditions, contemporary culture, and classical painting.
The exhibition matters because it marks a significant institutional presentation for a rising French artist whose work blends personal heritage with a distinctive gestural aesthetic. By framing paranoia as both structure and method, Taburet challenges viewers to navigate a space where anxiety becomes a discipline and suspicion a compositional tool, offering a fresh perspective on how contemporary painting can engage with psychological and spiritual themes in a historic setting.