Nina Chanel Abney Paints a Portrait of the New, Strange Normal

For her Paris solo debut at Perrotin, the artist interrogates what it means to survive in a time of never-ending crisis.
  • Nina Chanel Abney’s Now What? Or What Else? will be on view at Perrotin Paris from September 6 through October 11
  • Her first show with Perrotin since announcing her representation, this latest body of work explores what it means to survive amidst emotional aftermath of chaos and the shared experience of disaster that has come to define our everyday

The future feels closer now — uncertain, uneasy and not nearly as far as we once thought it to be. Our times are some defined by collapse, not as a singular rupture, but rather a low, drowning hum that undergirds the everyday.

Sep 6, 2025