Megan Mulrooney is pleased to present “reality is spam,” our first exhibition with Parisian painter Flora Temnouche, which also marks her United States solo debut. The exhibition will be on view through February 8 in Los Angeles.
Temnouche’s paintings are rooted in a close observation of her immediate surroundings. Rejecting artificial setups, she paints by daylight, capturing what surrounds her in her apartment-studio: a cut melon on her countertop, wilting flowers on her studio floor, even her own reflection. This approach requires a sharp attention to the nuances of her environment—the way sunlight shifts across a surface, how a discarded rag falls, or how arrangements of objects shape a sense of place and mood. Her works hold the traces of such fleeting moments and their atmospheres, balancing their ephemerality with the quasi-permanence of the canvas.
