EMMA PREMPEH – THE DOMAIN OF THE STRANGER
2026-09-07For her debut solo exhibition at Perrotin in Paris, Emma Prempeh presents a new body of work under the title The Domain of the Stranger, drawn from a line in Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother (2007).
Prempeh’s practice has long turned on questions of belonging, time, and inherited history, held across her Vincentian and Ghanaian lineages in different measures from one body of work to the next. This exhibition marks the first time these geographies sit alongside a third: the British landscape of her own upbringing in London, entering her painting for the first time. Within this triangulation, the artist also returns to her relationship with her father, a subject she had approached before and set aside due to emotional difficulty. What results is not a settling of these inheritances into any single account of home, but a widening: an exploration of diasporic subjecthood held in a metaphysical register, one that resists explanation and dwells instead in what cannot be fully named, or resolved.
Opposite – Is this legacy?, 2026
Exhibition runs through till September 26th, 2016
Perrotin
76 rue de Turenne
75003 Paris
France
