Sterling Ruby: TILL DEATH DO US PART

Sterling Ruby exhibition at Gagosian Paris.

Why go

The exhibition pairs large-scale cyanotype and watercolor works with cast bronze sculptures of bound flower couples, creating a spatial dialogue that references both wedding portraiture and Flemish vanitas traditions—flowers depicted in various stages of decay.

What to expect

Architecturally scaled prints of the GHOSTS series fill the gallery walls with deep blue linear marks; smaller collages hang over these fields; several unique bronze sculptures from Bound Flowers. Couple. occupy the space, their forms mimicking, overlapping, and intertwining in poses echoing rigid wedding portraits.

Things to know

• Works derive from Ruby's studio garden in Vernon, California, and time spent in the Eastern Sierras.
• The Bound Flowers. Couple. sculptures represent pairs of flowers bound in an embrace, mimicking wedding portrait poses.
• Flowers are portrayed in various stages of decay, referencing the impermanence of life and seventeenth-century Flemish and Dutch still-life
• The exhibition title references the marriage vow 'till death do us part,' linking floral imagery to commitment and mortality.

Plan your visit

Gallery hours: Tuesday–Saturday 10:30–6:30. Located at 9 rue de Castiglione, 75001 Paris. Contact +33 1 42 36 30 07 or paris@gagosian.com for inquiries.