Mondays Are Fridays Exhibition, Jean-Kenta Gauthier, Paris

Presented across the gallery’s two spaces, the inaugural exhibition Mondays Are Fridays by Coco Capitán brings together paintings on canvas and on boat sails, photographs, poems, drawings, sculptures, and publications. Through intimate references to navigation, childhood, sport, or dreams, Mondays Are Fridays articulates a body of work in which the diversion of signs, humor, melancholy, and a keen sense of aphorism become ways of holding steady.

At JKG Vaugirard, the exhibition embraces a diversity of techniques that bear witness to an artist showing “increasing complexity and interdependence [in] her practice in recent years” (Simon Baker, ‘Coco Capitán: at the other side…’, Busy Living, Loose Joints, 2019). Bringing together painting, drawing, and the art of the formula, Imagination Investments (2025) mimics the visual communication of financial institutions—here the bank ING and its emblematic lion—and reminds us that we must dream. Or that we must breathe, as in Breathable Air, Inc. (2020), a document drawn like a photographic image. Since 2022, the artist has extended her pictorial practice to painting.