acb Gallery

🔴 We are proud to announce that @selman.selma is part of the first exhibition of the newly opened contemporary art center Le Large @large.emerige in a former Renault factory site on Île Seguin Paris. The exhibition curated by Cecilia Alemani is titled Imaginary Engine - from masterpieces in the Renault Collection to today’s artists.

Taking the distinctive history of île Seguin, once home to the Renault factories, as its starting point, the exhibition explores the connections between artistic creation, industry, innovation and society. Bringing historic works from the Fonds Renault pour l’Art et la Culture into dialogue with contemporary creations, it examines the major transformations of the modern world and the ways in which artists respond to them.

Conceived as a journey through the industrial memory of île Seguin and the worlds of imagination it continues to inspire, the exhibition invites visitors to look afresh at the relationships between people, machines and the narratives that shape our time.
Selma Selman’s work is featured in the chapter Object of Desire among Shirin Aliabadi, Niki de Saint Phalle, Kenneth Anger, Bianca Bondi and Oliver Beer. The artists view the car as extension of the body and a fetish object, these works explore its sensual charge and contested symbolism as a site of desire, identity and critique.

On view between 17 October 2026 - 7 March 2027.

Photo: Selma Selman, “Painting on Metal, Mercedes-Benz,” 2022. View from Rijksakademie’s installation, Amsterdam, Netherlands Sander van Wettum/Courtesy of Le Large