Paloma Varga Weisz's Rug People, 2011 is now on display in the forecourt of Singer Laren. The sculpture shows a group of figures wrapped in blankets and cardboard, evoking the vulnerability of displacement.

Paloma Varga Weisz makes deeply personal work in which she is willing to explore painful subjects. The sculptural group Rug People was originally created for the former Harbour Station in Folkestone, United Kingdom — the departure point for soldiers heading to the battlefields of the First World War, and later the final stop of the Orient Express. Her own family history also plays a role: Varga Weisz's father fled Nazi-occupied Paris as a young Jewish boy during the Second World War. The work is therefore also a quiet tribute to him.

Until April 2027