An independent space, Rue Antoine is a gallery open to the street. It fosters dialogue with artists — established or emerging, recognized or not, contemporary or otherwise — through evolving collaborations: installations, performances, and the production and publication of hybrid and original works.
INVITATION TO LOVE : An exhibitions and events cycle related to David Lynch
June 2026 - June 2027
For some, it was a brief excerpt from The Elephant Man, a midnight screening of Eraserhead, or a song by Julee Cruise; for others, the revelation of Mulholland Drive, a photograph of an abandoned factory, or a public statement about meditation; for many of us, the unforgettable fiction of Twin Peaks, unfolding over several decades. Whatever our point of entry into David Lynch’s work, we sensed that, through it, we were entering an entire world—one that would irrevocably change our own. A world made of ideas—to borrow a notion often told by the artist, who, when asked where his inspiration came from, would say that one had to know how to receive an idea, restoring to the word its etymological power of vision. A world woven from forms, true and singular. A world inhabited by the dream of a life devoted to art (The Art Life).
To mark the first anniversary of David Lynch’s death, brought about in the wake of the devastating wildfires that engulfed Los Angeles in early 2025, Rue Antoine gallery welcomes ASAP and recreates, for one year, the alternative space of the Red Room, so familiar to Twin Peaks fans. In this place, open to the street day and night, we will host a succession of concerts, exhibitions, talks, screenings, and performances. This will be neither a memorial tribute nor a series of pastiches, but a collective demonstration of David Lynch’s unique importance to the arts, to thought, and to life.
June 2026 Programmation
- Thursday, June 11 at 8 pm, “Twin Peaks: See You in 25 Years”: a conversation between Stéphane Delorme and Laurent Dubreuil.
- Thursday, June 18 at 8 pm, “(w)hole”: opening of Jack Clauss’s exhibition (photographs, film, and objects), followed by a conversation between the artist and Laurent Dubreuil. The exhibition will be on view until the end of the month.
Both events will take place at 10 rue Antoine, Paris.
THE OWLS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM
19.09 - 17.10.2026
Twin Peaks, season 2, episode 1 — May the Giant Be with You
Saturday 19th of september 2026, from 3pm : Opening of the exihbition
Artists : Corine Borgnet · Damien Cadio · Larry Clark · Salvador Dalí · Jessy Deshais · Richard Hamilton · La Dame à la valise · Emmanuel Lefrant · David Lynch · Mathilde Marc · Judith Prigent · Man Ray · Raphaëlle Ricol · Mathieu Weiler
Images never quite coincide with themselves. Behind a reflection, another space emerges; behind a portrait, another face; behind a copy, an original whose status has become uncertain. They slip, double, transform.
It is in this gap that the double comes into being.
The myth of Sosias already tells the story of a man confronted with his own image. In Germanic traditions, the Doppelgänger is the one who walks beside us: our other self, our apparition, sometimes the omen of our disappearance. In Dostoevsky, this doubling manifests itself as a crisis of the individual. In David Lynch’s work, the double ceases to be a mere character and becomes a property of the image itself. Bodies change appearance, identities pass from one face to another, and several realities seem to coexist.
But the double does not belong to cinema alone. It runs throughout the history of the visual arts. The mirror, the shadow, the reflection, the copy, and repetition all bring into play the instability of representation. In the twentieth century, with Rrose Sélavy, Marcel Duchamp invented his own double, while Andy Warhol repeated images until rendering them unstable.
This exhibition does not seek to illustrate the Doppelgänger. At the crossroads of literature, philosophy, music, cinema, and the visual arts, The Owls Are Not What They Seem brings together works in which the image becomes blurred, doubled, or estranged from itself.
As in the universe of David Lynch, nothing is ever quite what it seems. The owls are not what they seem.
Neither are the images.
Programation of september 2026
• Saturday 19th of September 2026, from 3pm : Opening of the exihbition
• Friday 25th of September 2026 : Lookalike/Doble Party “Bring your Own Double”