Exhibition "Repairing the Invisible", Justin Palermo

9 rue de la Baclerie, Nantes

Moved by the experience of grief, Justin Palermo explores what remains after absence. He works from memories, everyday objects, damaged or broken items to give them a second life. Playing with the fragility of gathered elements, he mends, transforms, and poetizes familiar and anonymous narratives. His delicate and meticulous creations seem as whimsical as they are sources of wonder. They reveal and magnify the invisible. Justin Palermo occupies the entirety of Passage Sainte-Croix. In the exhibition rooms as in the passage spaces, he carries his reach…