
Simon Martin
As Paris emerged from lockdown in late spring 2020, hollyhocks bloomed across the city in pinks, blues, and whites as sun-bleached and delicate as Simon Martin’s palette for “Ce qui dort sous les petals” (Those Who Sleep Under the Petals), his second solo show at Jousse Enterprise. In the first room of the gallery, a pair of canvases, Des roses ont poussé dans les joints du carrelage I and II (Hollyhocks Have Come Up Between the Tiles, all works 2023) hang opposite each other, both rendering the tenacious wildflower as tall as a man. Martin conjures a dreamlike landscape, which he anchors to