Please Touch: Marcel Duchamp and the Fetish Curated by Paul B. Franklin

Please Touch: Marcel Duchamp and the Fetish Curated by Paul B. Franklin

7 rue Debelleyme Paris, 75003, France Saturday, November 27, 2021–Saturday, February 19, 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday, November 27, 2021


This exhibition is the first to explore the centrality of the fetish in Marcel Duchamp's practice. Largely overlooked by scholars and curators, fetishism served as a potent guiding principle as the artist traced his singular path through twentieth-century art. Duchamp himself acknowledged that eroticism was 'visible or conspicuous, or, at any rate, underlying […] the basis of everything I was doing'.