Louise Bonnet: The Hours

Louise Bonnet’s first solo exhibition with Gagosian, “The Hours,” makes its debut at the gallery’s Park Avenue location. In a suite of new oil paintings, the artist has created nightmarish depictions of everyday routines, reflecting the current state of crisis during a global pandemic using caricature-like figures without any faces. Influenced by medieval manuscripts like Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (a book of hours containing a collection of prayers), the works allude to European art and Christian imagery—like Calvary with Potato, in which a wave of blood gushes from a finger with a tiny cut; and Visitation, where one figure hovers over a bed, looking down on an almost-identical person.