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Galerie Openspace is pleased to present the very rst exhibition of Dan Rawlings in France featuring about thirty cut artworks from September 7 to October 8, 2019. The exhibition title “The Earth Exhales” is a reference to a poem by John Betjeman, a journalist and poet known for his environmental acti- vism and privileged relationship with the Queen of England in the 70s and 80s. The text was written in 1937 about the city of Slough, which was then going through an industrial boom that bore dramatic consequences on housing and nature. In it, the author wishes bombs would swipe out the city …