To visit ‘A Sphinx Looking a Poet’ by artist Suzannah Pettigrew, currently on view at Dover Street Little Market in Paris, is to step into a memory palace constructed out of sumptuous and haunted images. A secluded room above the Dover Street Market store – exuding industrial austerity with concrete walls and a floor with cracking paint – is enlivened by the saturated tones of Pettigrew’s ‘photo-sculptures’: large-scale images printed on fabric and hung like curtains, depicting, variously, a bouquet of pink lilies, a winged sphinx at the base of a statue, and a tasselled canopy of a bed.
