Plein sud is pleased to invite you to the closing event of Configurations, an exhibition by Nicolas Grenier, on Thursday, March 26, starting at 6 p.m., in the presence of the artist and curator Marianne Cloutier.

Wine, Boldwin beers, and popcorn will be generously provided.

Free admission. Everyone is welcome!

Configurations

Configurations presents the evolution of Grenier’s practice over the past fifteen years through a body of work composed of preparatory drawings, a selection of small studies, and four paintings. The exhibition reveals the strong influence of his formative years at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles, the conceptualism characteristic of the West Coast, and the stark social inequalities typical of this major American city. Following his time in the United States, his work adopted a decidedly political stance, focusing on the structures that organize our lives, our societies, and our cities. By examining economic systems as well as their connections to political doctrines and ideologies, Grenier casts a joyfully cynical eye on the power relations at work within these systems, including those of the art world itself. He illustrates the ways in which these configurations do—or do not—accommodate certain realities, and even certain individuals, and how each person’s experience of the world depends on them. In doing so, he exposes the intrinsic absurdity of the very foundations of these systems, often built on principles of exclusion, as well as the fragile shifts that can occur from one idea to another, one conviction to another, and one social status to another.

Curator: Marianne Cloutier
Exhibition: January 24 to March 28, 2026