Anri Sala アンリ・サラ Eternal Tears
Anri Sala アンリ・サラ Eternal Tears
Anri Sala アンリ・サラ Eternal Tears
Anri Sala アンリ・サラ Eternal Tears
Anri Sala アンリ・サラ Eternal Tears
Anri Sala アンリ・サラ Eternal Tears

Eternal Tears

Anri Sala

2025

Archival pigment print on baryta metallic paper

31 x 31 cm

Edition of thirty copies numbered and signed by the artist on a certificate, plus three artist’s proofs and three publisher’s proofs

Price
€450.00
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The edition

Anri Sala's new edition belongs to the tradition of memento mori, an artistic genre that has served since classical antiquity as a reminder of the inevitability of death. The skull motif is characteristic. Here, however, a sign of life has found its place at the center of the image, in the form of a snail sheltered in the eyeball. It is the only place in this black-and-white photograph where a burst of color shines through — as if to signal, beyond the vanity of existence, the vitality conveyed by the gaze and aesthetic contemplation.

The artist
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Photo by Jutta Benzenberg

Anri Sala was born in 1974 in Tirana (Albania). He is currently living in Berlin.

Through a wide variety of media (film, photography, installation, performance), Anri Sala has explored the density of language and history since the mid-nineties. Based on daily situations as well as historical figures and events, his works carefully articulate images, sounds, and the space of their presentation to make viewers experience perceptual ruptures and conceptual paradoxes, untying the knots of our conventional logic, in the manner of a kôan.

His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Bourse de Commerce, Paris (2023); Kunsthaus Bregenz (2021); Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, Houston (2021); Centro Botìn, Santander (2019); Mudam, Luxembourg (2019); the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin (2019); Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2017); the New Museum, New York (2016); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2014); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2012); Serpentine Gallery, London (2011); Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (2008); and ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2004). He has also participated in major group exhibitions and biennials internationally, including the 57th Venice Biennale (2017), dOCUMENTA (13) (2012), the 29th São Paulo Biennial (2010) and the 4th Berlin Biennale (2006). In 2013, he represented France in the 55th Venice Biennale.

His work is represented by Galerie Chantal Crousel (Paris), Marian Goodman Gallery (New York, Los Angeles), Hauser & Wirth (Zurich), kurimanzutto (New York), Esther Schipper (Berlin), Galeria Alfonso Artiaco (Naples) and Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle (Munich).

The exhibition
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Anri Sala's exhibition took place at Keijiban  from September 15 to October 14, 2025.