Michel Ritter began making art at the same time whilst travelling around the world at a young age. The experiences he gathered on his travels influenced a practice that consisted in diverting the foundations of an excessive visual culture through the use of minimal expressive gestures. In a manner of poetic justice, the artist, through subtle interventions that alter the subjects depicted, takes the images out of the constant flow of current events and the particular form of amnesia that they impose. This anthropological take on the staging of everyday life is in dia­logue with American art of the time, where the artist repeatedly spent longer periods.

The exhibition offers an overview of a practice that spans thirty years and marks the anachronistic rediscovery of a singular work. It has been organised in collaboration with the estate Succession Michel Ritter (Paris) and will be the subject of a first catalogue to be published in 2022.