Pol Taburet takes over Villa Medici with Paranoia as Method, a major solo exhibition on view through July 15th, 2026. Presented as part of the 40th edition of the Art Club programme, the exhibition brings together new sculptures, drawings, charcoal works, and monumental paintings created during the artist’s residency, drawing viewers into a world shaped by mythology, memory, and psychological unease.
Villa Medici: where history meets psychological landscapes
Spread across Villa Medici’s gardens, loggias, salons, and plaster cast gallery, Paranoia as Method places contemporary works in conversation with Renaissance architecture. Curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, the exhibition features works conceived specifically for the residency, allowing the setting to become an active participant.
Instead of a linear narrative, visitors move through shifting emotional states. Sculptures, charcoal drawings, and large-scale paintings evoke uncertainty, vulnerability, and perpetual change.
Hybrid figures between Caribbean myth, classical painting, and contemporary unease
Drawing on Caribbean heritage, syncretic voodoo traditions, contemporary visual culture, and classical painting, Taburet has developed a singular pictorial language. Airbrush techniques meet expressive brushwork, producing layered surfaces where precise forms drift into abstraction and symbolism.
Hybrid human-animal figures inhabit dreamlike settings, suggesting unstable identities, mortality, and spiritual passage. Echoes of Francis Bacon, Baroque painting, and religious imagery appear throughout, filtered through a distinctly contemporary lens.
