Parliament

About the Gallery
Founded in 2020, Parliament is the result of a desire to rethink the function of the art gallery, formulating new proposals around the process of interaction between the public and works of art, as well as offering visibility to a new generation of French and international artists.

Parliament wishes to build, through a programme that makes sense in the long term, a space dedicated to the circulation of ideas and collective reflection. The exhibition programme is interspersed with punctual "Interludes", archive exhibitions and retrospectives, aimed at putting into perspective the transdisciplinary nature of creation.

About the Presentation
Achraf Touloub will make their New York debut in a solo presentation with Parliament, a first-time exhibitor at Independent. 

The presentation assembles four paintings in an allegory of perception, legible at both the scale of individual works and that of Achraf Touloub’s practice. As they shift between viewpoints or orders of magnitude and telescope between distances to their subject and modes of their capture, the paintings stage the reciprocal instability of figures and grounds, hallucinations of decryption and vice-versa. If the abstraction of a generic visuality could be embodied, if a subjectivity that is truly no one’s but is fully immersed in our current visual regime could be made palpable, then perhaps the paintings would serve as flashes from its biography, moments when what it sees coincide with how it is seen.

Based on an essay on Achraf Touloub's practice by Mihnea Mircan