Curated by Hervé Chandès and Leanne Sacramone

This miniretrospective will present a dozen large-scale paintings and collages by Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes, including a substantial piece made specifically for the exhibition—all doubtless rendered in her signature carnival colors. With the Boulevard Raspail and the institution’s Lothar Baumgarten–designed gardens as backdrop, Milhazes will transform the front and back glass facades of the Fondation Cartier’s Jean Nouvel building into a translucent spectacle of collaged adhesive film. Inside, expect a further profusion of ornamental pastiche: References to Brazilian colonial baroque and Neo-concretism collided at speed into elements of Constructivism, International Style, Art Nouveau, Pop, and psychedelia. Smaller-scale collages incorporate candy wrappers, shopping bags, and other scavenged, blingy bits, flirting between critique and celebration.

— Frances Richard