ART TO SEE AT SAINT LAURENT RIVE DROITE
words by DEBORAH DRENOFCI
Some days we immerse ourselves in art, in any form, purely for pleasure. On others, art becomes almost a necessity. One that might send us all the way to Paris, or anywhere in the world, just to see something that could refresh our perspective. It helps to know where to go. SAINT LAURENT RIVE DROITE, the creative and cultural hub curated by Anthony Vaccarello, has a home in Paris, Los Angeles, New York, and Beijing. In Paris, it is joined by SAINT LAURENT BABYLONE, part cultural space, part bookstore.
images courtesy of SAINT LAURENT RIVE DROITE
LIMINAL REFLECTIONS
BY SHINGO FRANCIS
Liminal Reflections, on view at SAINT LAURENT RIVE DROITE Los Angeles from September 17 to November 11, shows new work by American-Japanese artist Shingo Francis. Born into a family of artists, Francis grew up between Tokyo and Santa Monica. His work carries the artistic traditions and visual cultures of both, and lives in the space between them. The most striking part is the material. Francis paints with titanium-coated mica particles, so each canvas shifts with the viewer’s position. What you see depends on where you stand, the room around you, and the light.
5BIS
BY CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG
In Paris, SAINT LAURENT RIVE DROITE presents 5bis, a photography exhibition by Charlotte Gainsbourg, running from September 24 to December 2. The photographs document her father’s home at 5bis Rue de Verneuil. Before it became Maison Gainsbourg, a museum dedicated to Serge Gainsbourg’s life and work, it was the house where Charlotte lived. More than an exhibition, 5bis is a walk through memory, love and admiration. Nostalgia, captured through a Hasselblad lens. The accompanying book, published by SAINT LAURENT EDITIONS, is available in several versions.
EXHIBITION
BY JACQUES VILLEGLÉ
Across the river, SAINT LAURENT BABYLONE turns to French artist Jacques Villeglé, from September 29 to November 29. The show marks a hundred years since his birth, alongside a major presentation of his work at the Musée Carnavalet. A founding member of the Nouveaux Réalistes, Villeglé spent decades pulling torn posters off city walls, worn down by weather and by strangers’ hands. Each piece is named after the street it came from. Ads, politics, scraps of everyday life: he chose them the way a photographer chooses a frame. Every work on show is for sale.
EXHIBITION
BY BRANDON MORRIS
In New York, Brandon Morris takes over SAINT LAURENT RIVE DROITE during New York Art Week, from September 25 to November 16. Born in San Diego in 2000, Morris studied fashion design at Parsons before turning to sculpture. His subject is still the garment, just without a body inside it. Vaccarello commissioned this new series after Morris’ Tissu Expansé show in Paris, as a response to the lace dresses from the Saint Laurent Women Winter 2026 collection. Fiberglass printed with lace and hardened in tinted resin becomes hollow, freestanding dresses. Empty, yet strangely alive. Three of them lounge on vintage furniture Morris sourced himself, part of the work rather than a stand for it.
