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Ruth Benzacar Galería de Arte celebrates the opening of Leandro Erlich’s first major solo exhibition in Paris at the Grand Palais, a large retrospective dedicated to one of the most renowned and influential Argentine artists on the international contemporary art scene.

“Reality and perception are inseparable for me. I find it interesting that much of what we call reality is actually something constructed by society,” says Erlich. Based on this premise, the exhibition brings together iconic works and new productions that explore the boundaries between perception and reality through everyday architectures, mirrors, reflections, and immersive installations capable of transforming the familiar into extraordinary experiences.

As French critic and curator Fabrice Bousteau points out, Erlich’s works create “an aesthetics of attention, action, and the absolute inversion of what we believe to be real,” regardless of our culture, origin, or age. In his installations, the viewer ceases to be a passive observer and becomes an active protagonist in situations that challenge logic, gravity, and our certainties about the world.

Erlich thus constructs true theatrical devices. Influenced since adolescence by the films of Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola, Michelangelo Antonioni, Luchino Visconti, Charlie Chaplin, and Fritz Lang, the artist develops a body of work in which each visitor participates in a collective cinematic experience where the impossible seems to become real.

With exhibitions held in cities such as Tokyo, Miami, Milan, and Helsinki, this presentation at the Grand Palais marks a milestone in the artist’s international career. It reaffirms an artistic practice in which reality is never fixed, but rather mobile, hybrid, and unstable.