Liam Gillick continues his conceptual interrogation of corporate culture through forms that attempt to expose social behaviors controlled by architecture. A theorist, designer, teacher, and prankster, the British artist is best at putting a baton in the wheel of existing structures and systems, unveiling their influence on their environments and their users. In his show at Air de Paris, Gillick once again takes up industrial screens and large wall texts. The boxy, grey-paneled Suspended Discussion contrasts with the brightly colored insets of Local Discussion Screen. Gillick's minimalist gesture in Rendered Rejection, a series of painted aluminum slats set in close intervals and cantilevered vertically along the wall, channels Donald Judd while looking backward at the worker's utopia imagined by arch-constructivist Vladimir Tatlin.

-Erin Cowgill

Liam Gillick's work is also on view at New York's Casey Kaplan Gallery from May 8 through June 14.