Lo Brutto Stahl in Paris is hosting a group exhibition titled "Where it doesn’t reach," featuring the works of Hélène Janicot, Park McArthur, and the late conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader. The show creates a dialogue between contemporary sculpture and installation by Janicot and McArthur and historical lens-based media by Ader. Notably, the exhibition's reach extends beyond the Parisian gallery space to include a presence in Basel.
This exhibition matters because it bridges the gap between 1970s conceptualism and contemporary practices that explore the limits of physical and conceptual presence. By pairing Ader’s seminal explorations of failure and disappearance with McArthur and Janicot’s modern investigations into materiality and space, the gallery highlights a continuing lineage of artists who interrogate the boundaries of what art can capture and where its influence ends.