PAUL CHAN in ECHO DELAY REVERB

Oct 22, 2025 – Feb 15, 2026

Palais de Tokyo, Paris

The group exhibition ECHO DELAY REVERB: American Art, Francophone Thought explores the history of the transatlantic circulation of forms and ideas through the works of over sixty artists.

The exhibition looks to art in the USA as a catalyst for the revolutionary energies of thinkers, activists and poets who transcended genres and profoundly reshaped perspectives on the world, from Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida to Frantz Fanon, Jean Genet, Aimé Césaire, Jacques Lacan, Monique Wittig, Pierre Bourdieu and Edouard Glissant. The reception and translation of their work in the United States led to unexpected forms, creating tools for a critical vision of institutions, both those of art and those of society. Theory here serves as an instrument for challenging social, aesthetic and linguistic norms, opening up new ways of seeing and engaging in the world.

Curated by Naomi Beckwith, the exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue edited by Beckwith with Elvan Zabunyan, including essays by Adam Shatz and Aria Dean, and interviews with Judith Butler, Huey Copeland and Renée Green.

To learn more, visit Palais de Tokyo's website.