Mondays Are Fridays

"All my Fridays are Mondays,
All my Mondays are Mondays."
(Coco Capitán, in If You've Seen It All Close Your Eyes, 2019)

Praised for a keen sense of aphorism and a distinctive hand, texts written by Coco Capitán (born in 1992 in Seville, lives in London) are celebrated for their irony, shot through with a melancholy that marks an artist who, "having paradoxically had to work commercially in order to finance [her] fine art studies," was early on entrusted with numerous large-scale and demanding commissions. Coco Capitán's multidisciplinary oeuvre is nonetheless the result of a virtuosity that, embracing text, painting, drawing, photography and, more recently, sculpture, allows for a clear continuity between personal works and commissioned pieces. With Coco Capitán, Mondays give birth to Fridays.

Presented from January 24 across the gallery's two spaces—at Jean-Kenta Gauthier Vaugirard through April 11, and at Jean-Kenta Gauthier Odéon through April 18—the inaugural exhibition Mondays Are Fridays embraces the diversity of Coco Capitán's work: paintings on canvas or on boat sails, photographs, drawings, sculptures, books, and textual works. Through intimate references invoking navigation, sport, childhood, and dreams, the exhibition evokes, in counterpoint, a freedom extending beyond the constraints of the contemporary world.