Perrotin Paris is pleased to present the gallery’s fifth solo exhibition with artist Matthew Ronay, Thirteen forms, on view from June 5-July 26, 2025. The presentation brings together ten sculptures and three wall reliefs that continue Ronay’s exploration of the subconscious through his ability to transform the intangible into tactile experience.

Ronay’s sculptural works evoke a phantom familiarity, as if plucked from the shadowy recesses of a fevered dream. Erotic undertones and a perverse alchemy of form pulse through Ronay’s objects, which are characterized by subversive humor. Central to the exhibition are two monumental horizontal installations, a polychrome work (The tombs are upset, 2023) and, for the first time, a black monochrome (Contraband emulator, 2024). Each appears as a kind of cursive script of forms, an approach first employed in Ronay’s 2022 exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas.

The artworks in Thirteen forms stem from the artist’s decades-long practice of meditation and automatic drawing, from which Ronay culls his images. Each piece is hand carved in basswood and dyed in collaboration with the artist’s partner Bengü. As a coda to the exhibition, the artist engaged an AI language model to dissect the visual lexicon and underlying narratives within the works; the conversations documented in an accompanying PDF.