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. 

In the current context of hyper-connection where our desires are anticipated by GAFA’s data collection, Achraf Touloub seeks to reclaim a space for human emotions - a new realm of freedom. For Parliament’s first participation in Independent, Touloub presents a solo presentation that assembles paintings as an allegory of perception. The paintings will stage the reciprocal instability of figures and grounds, hallucinations of decryption and vice-versa.