Curated by Laurence Bossé, Julia Garimorth, and Hans-Ulrich Obrist

In a 2000 interview with Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Anri Sala spoke poignantly of contemporary life lived between—between his native Tirana and his adopted home of Paris, between the ancient language of his childhood and the cosmopolitan tongues of the art world. Whether observing the preparation of traditional Albanian pastry in a Brussels kitchen or documenting an eerily depopulated zoo in his hometown, Sala explores this existential indeterminacy with a combination of clarity and wistfulness. He is now the subject of a solo exhibition that includes five recent video works and which occupies the museum’s temporary venue of the Couvent des Cordeliers.

— Jeffrey Kastner