With "5e étage", the SLOW Galerie invites Paul Duru to turn his gaze on the city where he was born and which he never stops observing, walking through and drawing.
The exhibition brings together three complementary sets: the interiors of small Parisian apartments, the city at night in the rain, and a series of small formats conceived as a travel sketchbook within Paris. Between the warmth of refuge and the hostility of the outside, the window becomes the point of passage from one world to the other.
PARIS À HAUTEUR DE FENÊTRE
The fifth floor is the turning point of the exhibition. It connects two faces of Paris that Paul Duru knows intimately and which, despite their apparent opposition, remain inseparable when one lives in the capital: the interior and the exterior, light and shadow.
Neither entirely at the heart of the street nor completely withdrawn from the world, this floor offers a privileged vantage point. Perspectives open up, sounds fade, and attention turns to views that one eventually stops seeing because they belong to everyday life: a room shaped by the person who lives in it, laundry drying, a reflection on a wet pavement, or a window lighting up at nightfall.