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Brent Wadden Main-à-dieu

Oct 18 — Nov 29, 2025 | Paris, Turenne (Front Space)

Opening on Saturday, October 18, 2025 from 6 to 8 pm

Almine Rech is pleased to announce two solo exhibitions by artist Brent Wadden, on view from October 18 to November 29, 2025 at Almine Rech Paris, Turenne (Front Space) and from November 7 to January 10, 2026 at Almine Rech Brussels.

Born in 1979 in Nova Scotia, Canada, Wadden comes from a working-class background. His father and uncle were fishermen, bound to the cycles of the sea. He grew up watching them repeat gestures, day after day — hauling, knotting, mending, repairing. Skills passed down, inherited through repetition. For Wadden, the loom becomes a parallel stage: the choreography of labor translated to canvas.

Each summer, he returns to Nova Scotia — a ritual, almost a pilgrimage, to the land where his identity was first woven. Last summer, a wrong turn on a coastal road led him to an unknown beach, untouched and paradisiacal. This accidental discovery opened onto an image both real and imagined: the vision of his native land as he had always carried it within himself, both origin and horizon. It is no coincidence that the Paris exhibition bears the title 'Main-à-Dieu' — the name of the nearby fishing village — as if to anchor this return to his roots in the very name of the show.
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— Boris Bergmann, writer.

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Selected artworks

  • Brent Wadden,                                      Untitled, 2025

    Brent Wadden Untitled, 2025

    Hand woven fibers, wool, cotton and acrylic on canvas
    205 x 203 x 3 cm
    80 1/2 x 80 x 1 in