MEGAN GABRIELLE HARRIS I SOLO SHOW I ARTCURIAL PARIS: Only when I'm dreaming

Only When I’m Dreaming marks Megan Gabrielle Harris’s first solo presentation in Paris, presented at Artcurial in collaboration with OOA Gallery. The exhibition brings together a focused selection of recent paintings that explore states of interiority, perception, and imagined space, positioning painting as a site of reflection rather than narrative resolution.

Harris’s works are constructed through layered surfaces and carefully modulated colour fields. Landscapes, thresholds, and architectural fragments recur throughout the exhibition, often framed as spaces to be entered rather than scenes to be read. Figures appear at the margins of these environments, not as protagonists, but as witnesses—anchored in moments of pause, anticipation, or quiet observation.

The exhibition foregrounds painting as a process shaped by repetition and variation. Subtle shifts in tone, light, and texture generate atmospheres that resist immediacy, inviting sustained attention and close looking. Dreaming, in this context, is not presented as escape, but as a method: a way of holding memory, distance, and presence within the same visual field.

Presented by OOA Gallery (Sitges, near Barcelona), the solo show at Artcurial extends the gallery’s curatorial programme dedicated to contemporary African and Afro-diasporic art. The exhibition situates Harris’s practice within a broader international dialogue on representation and imagination, affirming painting as a space of thought, sensitivity, and temporal depth.