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museum exhibitions calendar_today Thursday, April 23, 2026

Rachel Hardouin Gallery: three exhibitions exploring absence, nostalgia, and melancholy in Paris

The Rachel Hardouin Gallery in Paris is hosting three concurrent exhibitions from April 27 to May 2, 2026, featuring artists Éléonore Guiraud, Chloé Bertschy, and Alessandro Ferraro Manzotti. The shows explore themes of absence, nostalgia, and melancholy through mixed-media drawing, photography, and installation. Guiraud and Bertschy collaborate on "US 13-26," which uses art as a possible therapy for trauma tied to absence, while Manzotti presents "casa mia ha un sapore di mandorle," incorporating photography, installation, and a book signing. A lecture on solastalgia—climate-related trauma—will be held on April 29 with psychiatrist Joana Matos and filmmaker Camille Guichard.

This gathering matters because it brings together contemporary artistic responses to emotional and environmental loss, linking personal memory with broader ecological anxiety. By pairing visual art with a public talk on solastalgia, the gallery positions itself as a space for both aesthetic experience and urgent cultural dialogue, reflecting a growing trend in the art world to address mental health and climate change through interdisciplinary programming.