In the late 1920s, Alberto Giacometti was living on rue Hippolyte-Maindron, in a tiny apartment (247 square feet) with an earthen floor and a small iron stove. It was at that time that he met André Breton and the Surrealist artists, a group he worked with from 1930 to 1935. Suspended Ball (1930–31)—a plaster sculpture of a sphere with a cleft and a crescent moon just under it—marks Giacometti’s entrance into the group. A peach and a banana? A woman and a man? Forms and space? A nocturne? These early works already hinted at a lifelong preoccupation with the void—not as emptiness but as an active volume. This exhibition, which features works from the entirety of Giacometti’s career (he died in 1966, at 64), explores how his figures are inseparable from the space around them. —Elena Clavarino