Ludovic Nkoth’s reception in the Parisian art world has been warm. The painter has recently collaborated with two hallowed French institutions, including Christian Dior, who tapped him to design a special edition of their Lady handbag. Nkoth also collaborated with the estate of the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier, which chose him for the Maison La Roche exhibition, on view through November 25. Like many of his peers, Le Corbusier’s investigations into abstraction, as displayed at Maison La Roche, were heavily inspired by art from Africa—he was a keen collector of African masks—but Nkoth will be the first African artist to exhibit work there. “For me, this is a step into breaking that history by inserting myself,” he says. In the show, he’s offering a different story for the space: “What if this house was owned, or lived in, by a Black family?” Hence the show’s title, “What If.” —Daniel Penny