Christopher Williams: standard pose

Apples, soap, haystacks, a centerfold model, a rooster, children at play, a man with a camera in a freshly laundered shirt, and a smiling four-year-old girl. This exhibition is not made up of images of reality, but rather the reality of these images.

Selected photographs are the product of the artist's decades-long engagement with public pictures, ordinary pictures, or pictorial types. Numerous of these color and black-and-white images, many from Williams's iconic series For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (2005–2014), have not been exhibited since the artist's celebrated 2014–2015 retrospective The Production Line of Happiness, which was presented at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Whitechapel Gallery, London.

standard pose is Christopher Williams' first solo show in the French capital since 1999 and the tenth with David Zwirner. Christopher Williams, born in Los Angeles in 1956, lives and works in Cologne and Los Angeles.