Art is never
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Anne-Laure Lemaitre shapes places
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Your Nostalgia Created a Non-Existing Country

Curatorial · Swivel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY · November 2021
Venue
Swivel Gallery, Brooklyn
Artist
Luján Pérez
Format
Solo exhibition
Exhibition text
Anne-Laure Lemaitre
Photography
Cary Whittier

Memories are never linear. In Your Nostalgia Created a Non-Existing Country, Luján Pérez’s large works on paper, mixing printmaking, painting and drawing, become in-between territories where dreams, thoughts and memories blend: a dinner table seen by a five-year-old, the tender exchange of an imagined flower, a loved one’s toes wiggling.

A nomad since the age of five, Luján roots herself through nature. Cuttings inspired by the yellow oleander, beautiful yet toxic, rise from the silhouettes of the Spanish pots she grew up around, a thread running through every piece. Gradient grey walls, small sculptures and a light, induced air flow let the works, hung away from the walls on sculptural fixtures, move subtly, as fleeting as their subject.

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Exhibitions and curation

2026
En Flujo (in Flux)
Group show, THIRD BORN, Mexico City, Mexico (gallery show)
Projection Night curated by Oona Zyman
Historic Chapel, Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY (third space)
Artist: Bony Ramirez
Soundscape: Elvin Tavarez
2025
Group show, Shadow Walls, Purling, NY (third space during Upstate Art Weekend)
Opening performance by Alex Patrick Dyck
SaveArtSpace: 10th Anniversary
Various locations, New York, NY (co-curation of billboards takeover)
Félix Touzalin
Performance, FVTVR, Paris, France (night club)
Performance, Silencio, Paris, France (night club)
Artist: Sulian Rios
2024
Solo show, Trotter&Sholer, New York, NY (gallery show)
Performance, Silencio, Paris, France (night club)
Solo show, Poggiali Galleria, Milan, Italy (gallery show)
Artist: Lily Wong
Aurora Borealis
Group show, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (gallery show)
Silent Echoes
Solo show, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY (art fair booth)
Artist: Benny Or
Materials: Exhibition text
Group show, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND (museum show)
2023
Red Thread
Group show, Latitude Gallery, New York, NY (gallery show)
Materials: Press release
Solo show, Swivel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (gallery show)
Artist: Utē Petit
Solo show, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Culver City, CA (art fair booth)
Artist: Max Rippon
2022
Untitled
Group show, Future Fair Holiday Market (online)
Two-artist show (co-curated by Bony Ramirez), Swivel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (gallery show)
Solo show, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY (art fair booth)
Untitled
Solo show, Future Fair, New York, NY (art fair booth)
Artist: Ivana Stulic
Group show, Trotter&Sholer, New York, NY (gallery show)
2021
Group show, Kapp Kapp, New York, NY (gallery show)
Untitled
Group show, Future Fair Holiday Market (online)
Solo show, Swivel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (gallery show)
Solo show, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY (gallery show)
Artist: Pat Perry
Solo show, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY (art fair booth)
Big Apple Gifts and Souvenirs
Solo show, The Gallery Walk, New York, NY (third space)
The Sanctuary
Solo show, The Gallery Walk, New York, NY (third space)
2020
A Sign of the Times
Group show, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY (pop up)
Solo show, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY (art fair booth)
Artist: Asif Hoque
2019
Perils of a New World
Solo show, The Hall, Brooklyn, NY (third space)
Solo show, The Hall, Brooklyn, NY (third space)

Talks, residencies and more

2023–present
Civil Art
Board Member of an organization supporting API creatives
2022–present
Beverly’s
Member of the Nonprofit Committee for an artist-built and run nightlife and global arts institution
2026
ISCP Visiting Critic Program
Visiting Studio Critic for ISCP’s Artist cohort, ISCP, Brooklyn, NY
Curator Talk
Art Fair Philippines, Manila, the Philippines
2025
Art Fair Philippines Curator in Residence
First guest curator of the Art Fair Philippines three-week residency, across four locations countrywide
Arrival Art Fair
On site production & Run of Show management
Artist Talk
Curator/artist talk with artist Amy Bravo regarding her ‘Some Bullhead Girls’ exhibition, ISCP, Brooklyn, NY
ISCP Visiting Critic Program
Visiting Studio Critic for ISCP’s Artist cohort, ISCP, Brooklyn, NY
2024
In case my mind [betrays] me, let me say one last thing.
Curator/Artist talk, Trotter&Sholer, New York, NY
Future Fair Panel
Curator talk featuring Future Fair’s curatorial committee: Anne-Laure Lemaitre, Constanza Valenzuela & Osman Can Yerebacan
Future Fair Curatorial Committee
Selection of participating galleries for the 2024 edition of Future Fair
2023
Work In Process
Conceptualizing, curating and editing of a customized platform offering a look into the creation of Dominique Fung’s A Tale of Ancestral Memories & Ho Jae Kim’s Ode to Joy
Ode to Joy
Artist talk, Nicodim Annex, Los Angeles, CA
Dominique Fung Art in Public Places at Rockefeller Center, Production and curatorial advising for a series of public art interventions at the artist’s request
2022
Fairchain Collector Panel
Moderated by Jasmine Wahi, Speakers: Anne-Laure Lemaitre (independent curator) & Sophia Cohen (Sales & Artist liaison, Gagosian), NeueHouse, New York, NY
Springtime Salon with Curator Anne-Laure Lemaitre
Young Collectors League, New York, NY

Selected writing

2026
Catalogue essay on Christine Rebhuhn’s practice
Essay for Kawayan de Guia’s solo show at Silverlens
2025
Press release for Shyama Golden’s solo show at PM/AM
Essay on Cato Ouyang featured in Jeffrey Deitch’s Wonder Women exhibition book
2024
Interview of Lily Wong featured in Poggiali Galleria’s exhibition catalog
Cattleya
Interview of Bony Ramirez featured in The Newark Museum’s exhibition book
2023
Congratulations Hero!!!
Essay on Amy Bravo featured in Poggiali Galleria’s exhibition catalog
2022
Some Strange Power
Essay for Christina Barrera, Amy Bravo, Anna Cone, Amorelle Jacox and Pol Morton’s Hunter MFA thesis exhibition
Before Sunrise
Press release for Asif Hoque’s solo show at Yossi Milo

Education

2007
Master of Fine Arts
École Nationale Supérieure Des Beaux-Arts, Giuseppe Penone Atelier, Paris, France

Practice

Photo: Alexander Laurent Rubalcava

Anne-Laure Lemaitre is a curator, writer, and producer based in New York, Paris, and the Nova Scotia wilderness. Her practice begins by questioning a territory: its physical and emotional dimensions, its history, its context, its belonging, before turning to the art it calls for. This orientation has shaped a body of work spanning the most experimental corners of the emerging art world and leading corporations and public institutions.

Many artists she has worked with early in their careers have since gone on to significant critical and market recognition. Those relationships rarely end with the exhibition. For several, she remains a resource: someone to think with, exchange with, workshop with.

For nearly twenty years, she has worked across scales and contexts: from intimate solo exhibitions at artist-run spaces to permanent public commissions, from single-artist career conversations to cultural programs spanning five continents. Her practice is built around the specific rather than the repeatable, treating the space, the institution, the sidewalk, and the online environment each as curatorial material in its own right.

Lemaitre writes regularly about art for catalogues, publications, and for herself. Her writing, whether commissioned or not, tends toward the felt rather than the prescribed: a belief that how we speak about a practice, and what it does to us, shapes how it is seen and received.

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Exhibitions and site-responsive projects across galleries, institutions, and unconventional venues. Every project begins by defining its context and purpose first.
Collection building and program direction for collectors and corporations at any stage, tailored to each client’s goals and vision.
Long-term thinking partnership for artists and cultural institutions at pivotal moments: positioning, presentation, and the decisions that can shape a career or space over time.
End-to-end production for large-scale commissions and public art programs: artist selection, fabrication, permitting, staffing, scheduling. The infrastructure to make ambitious work happen seamlessly.
Catalogue essays, exhibition texts, and think pieces for galleries and publications. Writing that attends to what art genuinely does, intimately, not what it can be made to mean generically.

About Art In Context

Intentional art programs · Site-specific commissions
Curatorial strategy · International practice

Art In Context is a curatorial production practice whose work ranges from international public commissions, corporate collections and multi-venue cultural strategies to ongoing collaborations with artists, brands and cultural institutions.

Every project begins with the same questions: what does this place need, what story belongs here, and who should tell it. That orientation shapes everything from artist selection and fabrication to the logic of how a program holds together in one location or across multiple sites.

Drawing on nearly twenty years of work, Art In Context has built the infrastructure to operate anywhere and at any scale. An extensive network of creative partners allows it to move from a single commission to a coordinated program spanning dozens of sites without losing the specificity that makes a project land. Art In Context works worldwide.

Murals, sculptural installations and permanent commissions for developers, property owners and civic partners. Art In Context selects the artist, develops the concept with the site and manages production end to end: permits, fabrication, equipment, crews, scheduling and community.
Art programs for offices, restaurants and multi-site brands. Art In Context builds collections and commissions around each location, bringing together renowned international artists and local voices so every venue develops its own character, and keeps programs current as spaces evolve.
Projects at the intersection of art and other industries: awareness campaigns, limited edition series, artist career strategy and brand activations. Art In Context has worked across music, fashion, nonprofits and festivals. The brief varies; the standard doesn’t.
  • American Apparel
  • Avant Arte
  • C3 Presents / Live Nation
  • CBRE
  • Crew
  • DDDA
  • Gart Properties
  • Gensler
  • Great Bowery
  • iPic Theaters
  • Kiehl’s
  • Lab Series
  • LVMH
  • Mac Partners
  • Marc Jacobs
  • Nike
  • (RED)
  • RXR Realty
  • Two Trees
  • Visa
  • Volvo
  • WeWork
Understanding the space, the audience, and the intent comes first. Art In Context helps clients name what they actually need, then sets the scope, budget framework, and timeline.
This is where curatorial judgment matters most. Art In Context draws on an international network built long before any brief and brings forward the artists whose work is right for each scope.
Concept, permitting, fabrication, logistics, installation, documentation. Experience across many projects means knowing where things go wrong before they do.
For multi-site and long-term partners: rotating works, new commissions, collections kept alive. The best programs are not purchased once. They grow.
Production companies rarely think like curators, and curators rarely produce at scale. Art In Context does both, so the work is conceptually strong and logistically sound.
Many artist relationships began before those artists were widely known and have grown alongside their careers. Art In Context knows who is ready for a commission, who works well within constraints, and who delivers.
Art In Context declines projects where art would be an afterthought. When it takes one on, that conviction shows in the work.

Writing

Selected Writing

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Corporate projects: Art In Context
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Every project starts with a conversation.
Company
Art In Context, Inc.