LUBAINA HIMID: A Fashionable Marriage

Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris
Presented as part of Festival d'Automne
October 16, 2026 – January 10, 2027

On the occasion of Paris's annual Festival d'Automne, Lubaina Himid presents two significant installations across two historical and cultural sites. On view at the Musée d'Art Moderne is Himid's renowned life-size cutout installation A Fashionable Marriage (1986). Recasting William Hogarth’s satiric history painting, Marriage A-la-Mode (1743) with characters including Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and an art critic, this key artwork from Himid’s early career has become thoroughly relevant again in a moment when our world leaders resemble ever more closely those of the 1980s.

Curated by Clément Dirié, with Odile Burluraux for the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris.

Himid will also present a new installation in collaboration with Magda Stawarska, spanning painting, sculpture, textile, and sound at the Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, responding to the site's history as a former hospital for "deviant" women.

For information on how to visit A Fashionable Marriage, please visit the Musée d'Art Moderne's website.