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A collage featuring vintage cars, cyclists, and a motorcyclist in a busy street scene, superimposed with photos of sunglasses, fruit, and four nude figures lined up, all in vibrant, contrasting colors.

Rachel Libeskind—

If There Be Nothing New, But That Which Is 

An exhibition of large-scale works that examine the limits of legibility and visibility within mundane moments.

March 7 – August 15, 2026

À une époque où nous sommes inondés par une quantité écrasante de contenus visuels et de données, Rachel Libeskind crée des œuvres qui explorent la manière dont nous traitons ces instants banals qui constituent pourtant le contexte et le contenu de notre quotidien. Entourés d'une stimulation visuelle constante, nous traversons souvent des moments passifs — tels que les tâches ménagères ou les soins personnels — avec une inattention machinale, comme en mode « pilote automatique » subconscient. Ces expériences calmes et finies deviennent presque invisibles, traversant notre esprit sans y laisser d'empreinte ou de trace. Ses œuvres à grande échelle déconstruisent ces moments reconnaissables pour les reconstruire dans de nouveaux cadres visuels, créant ainsi des « souvenirs inédits » qui redonnent visibilité et intention aux rythmes trop souvent négligés de la vie de tous les jours. 

Inspirée par les théories de Jacques Lacan sur la culture visuelle et les laps de temps inaperçus, l'exposition de Libeskind, intitulée If There Be Nothing New, But That Which Is examine les limites de la lisibilité et de la visibilité au sein de ces moments triviaux. À travers le collage et la gravure, elle puise dans l'héritage d'artistes du XXe siècle — notamment Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Barbara Kruger et les Guerrilla Girls — en s'appropriant l'imagerie contemporaine et historique pour bousculer les récits familiers.

About Rachel Libeskind

Rachel Libeskind is an artist, performer, thinker and creative director based in New York City and Berlin, Germany. Her practice is developed through building mischievous strategies to engage with images, archives, and histories. She is collecting, intervening, manipulating, juxtaposing, undermining and reconstructing visual narratives within an often-overstimulating and sometimes chaotic time in history.  Libeskind’s work and performances have been featured widely internationally at notable institutions such as The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University, Alabama; Center for Jewish History, New York; Watermill Center, Long Island; Pioneer Works, Brooklyn; Bombay Beach Biennale; Künstler Bethanien Haus in Berlin, Germany; ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany; Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile; Baker Museum, Naples, Florida; Carpenter Center at Harvard University, Cambridge; and National Media Arts Festival of Lithuania, Vilnius. She has been awarded residencies and fellowships at Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Kaneohe; The Watermill Center, Long Island; Long Road Projects, Jacksonville; and in 2023 her work was featured was included in Phaidon Press’s book Vitamin C+: Collage in Contemporary Art.

A grayscale photo of a crowd and industrial buildings is overlaid with a vivid orange and yellow silhouette of a horse and rider, with bold black polka dots and abstract bars crossing the image.

Rachel Libeskind, Night Rider, 2025

A colorful collage featuring vintage cars in a lot, people riding motorcycles, duplicated images of faces, naked figures standing in a row, and abstract patterns in green, purple, yellow, and blue tones.

Rachel Libeskind, Historical Landscape, 2025

Three ancient Greek caryatid statues stand in front of a colorful, abstract background with a circular clock-like design and vivid splashes of yellow, pink, purple, red, and blue.

Rachel Libeskind, Teresius and the Caryatids, 2025

Abstract collage with a blue greenhouse background, a white square, red and green shapes resembling bird heads with black eyes, black lines, and yellow and white cutout pieces in the foreground.

Rachel Libeskind, Greenhouse Surgery, 2025