Philippe Parreno: Voices - A Collection of Spoken Works

Over the last 30 years, the French artist Philippe Parreno
has radically redefined the experience of the exhibition by
placing its construction at the heart of his process. Working
with high-end technologies, film, and performance, he
transforms galleries in choreographed spaces that follow a
script where a series of unexpected albeit interconnected
events unfold, thereby playing with the sensory experiences
of the visitor who is guided through the space by
the orchestration of sound and image.

Pushing the boundaries between script and transcript,
between document and memory one step further, the publication
Voices consists of transcriptions of his films, audio
works, and performances, transferring these seminal works
(back) into written form. The collection of texts establishes
a new perspective on Parreno's practice, which has always
been focused on revisiting and evolving his artworks from
the past, and offers insight into the artist's multi-faceted
approach to language and the human voice.PHILIPPE PARRENO (*1964, Oran) is one of the most influential
French artists of the last decades. Through his multidisciplinary
practice and astonishing films, including his iconic "marquees,"
luminous objects that speak, glimpse, sing, and enter into
dialogue with the visitors, Parreno creates artworks that question
the boundaries between reality and fiction, and play with our
understanding of time. He has transformed the monumental
spaces of the Palais de Tokyo and Tate Modern's Turbine Hall.
Recent exhibitions include site-specific interventions in the
Rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, and the Museo del
Prado in Madrid. Parreno lives and works in Paris.