‘Ana Silva: As guardiãs’
Magnin-A, Paris
Until August 30, 2025

Even before entering Magnin-A, vast embroideries visible from the street exert an irresistible attraction. One is seized by the urge to enter the gallery and immerse oneself in the poetic, sensitive, and powerful universe of Ana Silva. The Angolan artist became known for her maternity scenes embroidered on textiles, and presents in ‘As guardiãs’ large embroideries on crinoline of breathtaking detail. She adorns raffia with shimmering thread and sequins, creating compositions reminiscent of Gustav Klimt in which women become one with animals. Tigers, peacocks, and flamingos mingle with butterflies and their chrysalises; the women are deified and serene, a guardian of the perfect balance between nature and humanity. J.A.

‘Timeless Gazes: From Pharaohs to the Present Day’
Fondation Boghossian, Brussels
Until September 7, 2025

At the entrance of this show, an in-situ installation by Moroccan artist Ghizlane Sahli evokes the River Nile: materials, volumes, and fragrances merge to awaken the senses and stir memories. The photographs of Nyaba Léon Ouedraogo expose unfiltered realities – straddling documentary and poetry, his work questions globalization through the themes of pollution and exploitation and their lasting impact. These contemporary gazes encounter those of the Pharaohs, represented here by depictions of gods with eyes lined in kohl, a bust of Ramses II, Lady Tahy’s funerary stele, and sarcophagi whose eyes pierce through millennia. In this encounter, ‘Timeless Gazes’ tells a complete story that brings eras together and celebrates continuity. Y.S.

David Lynch
Galerie Duchamp, Yvetot, France
Until September 21, 2025

Galerie Duchamp, a contemporary art center located in Yvetot, France, dedicates an exhibition to the late film director David Lynch, revealing the visual-arts dimension of his practice – an aspect relatively unknown to the general public. From Eraserhead (1977) to Inland Empire (2006), the director consistently produced a body of pictorial and sculptural work alongside his universally acclaimed cinematic oeuvre. The linear hang of around 50 lithographs evokes a giant storyboard that allows viewers to immerse themselves in Lynch’s distinctive imagination. As in his films, malevolent doubles, monstrous creatures, and dark landscapes populate the black-and-white works, exploring the territories of the unconscious. Complemented by short experimental films, the exhibition celebrates a protean artist who forever changed the history of cinema and art. P.S.

‘Lubaina Himid with Magda Stawarska: Another Chance Encounter’
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK
Until November 2, 2025

As anticipation builds for Lubaina Himid’s British Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale, Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge has just opened a show that sensitively illuminates her ever-evolving practice. Himid and her long-time collaborator Magda Stawarska grapple with the past of the extraordinary former home of Jim and Helen Ede, renowned for its idiosyncratic collection of modern British art, design pieces, and curios. They revive the forgotten voices, conjure a new cast of characters, and nestle artworks in the house’s every nook and cranny. In this exhibition, Kettle’s Yard pulses with hidden stories, real and invented, underscoring the artists’ unique talent for celebrating the untold and unseen. C.M.

‘Delcy Morelos: Madre’
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Until January 25, 2026

Colombian artist Delcy Morelos has created something that doesn’t feel like an artwork at all. Madre is warm, heavy, fragrant. Stepping inside the walls made of earth and straw, the scent of cinnamon and hay mingle with soil, buckwheat, and honey, to create a protective quiet. Morelos draws on Indigenous worldviews, especially those that see the earth not as a resource but as a relative. The materials she uses are chosen not just for texture or scent but for what they carry. In contrast to Joseph Beuys, whose work, present in the adjoining halls, is shaped by personal mythology, Morelos draws on collective memory. What remains is the work, and the way it asks to be experienced slowly, with attention. A.R.

‘Emma Reyes, une artiste haute en couleur’
Musée d’art et d’archéologie du Périgord, Périgueux, France
Until July 2026

Born into poverty in 1919 in Colombia, Emma Reyes moved to Paris in 1947 and later became known as the mama grande to many Colombian artists seeking to make a name for themselves in the French capital. Throughout her life, she produced a truly original body of work, anchored in a self-taught technique and a singular approach to subject matter that honored her Latin American culture and heritage. Her depictions of outsized flowers, juicy fruits, and hybridized beings radiate an almost boundless vibrancy, saturating the surfaces of her canvases with life. From the 1960s onwards, Reyes developed strong ties with the Périgord region of France, where this exhibition takes place – an area abundant with natural riches and beauty, echoing the spirit of this trailblazing figure’s work. K.C.

‘From the Origin to the Future’
Naoshima New Museum of Art
Ongoing

The Naoshima New Museum of Art, located on Naoshima Island in Japan and designed by Tadao Ando, is dedicated to the work of Asian artists. Its inaugural exhibition features 12 artists and collectives, and spans three floors with highlights including Do Ho Suh’s Hub/s, Naoshima, Seoul, New York, Horsham, London, Berlin (2025), one of the artist’s signature installations of domestic interiors created from translucent fabric and commissioned by the museum; Chim↑Pom from Smappa!Group’s MICHI, a shipping container with construction waste that is part of the ‘Sukurappu ando Birudo Project’; and Takashi Murakami’s Rakuchū-Rakugai-zu Byōbu: Iwasa Matabei RIP (2023-2024), first shown in his solo exhibition in Kyoto in 2024, and which has since been refined to portray lively scenes of 2,700 figures. P.L.