Danielle Orchard reimagines the female figure through the lens of modernism

Perrotin is presenting Borrowed Chord, Danielle Orchard’s second exhibition in Paris and her seventh with the gallery. The exhibition brings together new works that deepen her engagement with figuration, intimacy, and the history of painting. Borrowing its title from a musical term describing a harmony drawn from a parallel key, the exhibition reflects Orchard’s longstanding practice of working within established pictorial traditions—modernist fragmentation, classical composition, and the reclining figure—while subtly shifting their emotional register. At first glance, Danielle Orchard’s paintings appear unapologetically intimate, direct, and above all devoted to representing the female figure. Languid nudes recline, bathe, read, or drift through private moments of subdued introspection. Suspended between action and reverie, these bodies inhabit tranquil spaces rendered