Art Paris: Booth D17

At Art Paris (Booth D17), Richard Saltoun Gallery presents a duo exhibition with paintings by Mozambian-Italian Modernist, Bertina LOPES (1924-2012), and pioneering Lebanese Surrealist, Juliana SERAPHIM (1934 - 2005). 

The first woman artist to bridge African and European Modernism, Lopes is one of the most important African post-war artists, marked by her inclusion in the 2024 Venice Biennale (her third time) and in the 2025 São Paulo Biennale. Presented paintings from the 1960s - 70s will spotlight her anti-colonialist and Feminist legacy.  

The stand will also showcase Surrealist paintings from the 1960s-1990s by Lebanese artist Juliana Seraphim, engaged with the liberation of female sexuality and agency, nature and spirituality.  The artist was considered by many of her peers as an outsider, for her artworks didn’t explicitly address the Palestinian national cause. Instead, she developed a unique iconography and politics of her own, rooted in the relationship between spirituality, nature and femininity,  exploring the complexities of what she called “a woman’s world”.

Seraphim’s work was included in two recent major exhibitions in France; Arab presence: Modern Art and Decolonisation, Paris 1908-1988 at the Museé d’Art Moderne, Paris 2024, and Beirut and The Golden Sixties, Biennale de Lyon, 2022.

Opening hours:

Wednesday 2 April: 11:00 – 21:00 (invitation only)
Thursday 3 April: 12:00 – 20:00
Friday 4 April: 12:00 – 21:00
Saturday 5 April: 12:00 – 20:00
Sunday 6 April: 12:00 – 19:00

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