Adam Unparadis’d

Tina Barney

Arthur Marie

Carissa Rodriguez

Rose Salane

Francis Irv is pleased to present Adam Unparadis’d.

Picture this: a grand fall from grace, a crime scene in what can only be described as “an estate”. A whodunit. A buckshot of bones, three blind pedlars, a codex of appointments, a perfumer and his heir-in-training. Forensics staged like expression, expression staged as forensics—the latent possibility of the opposite present in each.

"His years had been spent being so habitually obedient to the conventions of his class, that by this age, he had become the convention itself. And on the seventh day, he awoke with that same foretaste of loss that had plagued him since last Sunday. Still woollen from sleep, he found himself facing his grand mirror when an unfamiliar face appeared over his shoulder.. He thought Oh Heavens. Something thawed in his chest. He felt for the first time an absolute present tense then felt nothing at all."

Tina Barney (b. 1945, New York) lives and works in Westerly, Rhode Island and New York. Selected solo exhibitions include: Jeu de Paume, Paris (2024-5); Kutxa Fundazioa, San Sebastián (2024-5); Sun Valley Museum of Art, Sun Valley (2024); Kasmin, New York (2023, 2018, 2015); New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans (2015-16); Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville (2015); Netherlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam (1999); Museum Folkwang, Essen (1999); Museum of Modern Art, New York (1990). Selected public collections include: Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art.

Arthur Marie (b. 1996, Cherbourg) lives and works in Paris. Selected solo exhibitions include: Francis Irv, New York (forthcoming, 2026); Final Hot Desert, London (forthcoming, 2025); Fitzpatrick, Paris (2025, 2023); Queer Thoughts, New York (2023); Plymouth Rock, Zurich (2022).

Carissa Rodriguez (b. 1970, New York) lives and works in New York. Selected solo exhibitions include: Kunstverein München, Munich (2024); John Young Museum of Art, Honolulu (2020); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2019); Sculpture Center, New York (2018); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (2018); CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2015); Front Desk Apparatus, New York (2013); Karma International, Zurich (2012); House of Gaga, Mexico City (2010); Swiss Institute, New York (2010). Selected public collections include: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Walker Art Center.

Rose Salane (b. 1992, New York) lives and works in New York. Selected solo exhibitions include: The Institute of Fine Arts NYU, New York (2025); The Athenaeum, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens (2024); Tank, Shanghai (2024); Carlos/Ishikawa, London (2023, 2018); Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York (2021); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (2019); Jeffrey Stark, New York (2015). Selected public collections include: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Walker Art Center.