Philippe Parreno

Over the last 30 years, the French artist Philippe Parrenohas radically redefined the experience of the exhibition byplacing its construction at the heart of his process. Workingwith high-end technologies, film, and performance, hetransforms galleries in choreographed spaces that follow ascript where a series of unexpected albeit interconnectedevents unfold, thereby playing with the sensory experiencesof the visitor who is guided through the space bythe orchestration of sound and image.Pushing the boundaries between script and transcript,between document and memory one step further, the publicationVoices consists of transcriptions of his films, audioworks, and performances, transferring these seminal works(back) into written form. The collection of texts establishesa new perspective on Parreno's practice, which has alwaysbeen focused on revisiting and evolving his artworks fromthe past, and offers insight into the artist's multi-facetedapproach to language and the human voice.

PHILIPPE PARRENO (*1964, Oran) is one of the most influentialFrench artists of the last decades. Through his multidisciplinarypractice and astonishing films, including his iconic "marquees,"luminous objects that speak, glimpse, sing, and enter intodialogue with the visitors, Parreno creates artworks that questionthe boundaries between reality and fiction, and play with ourunderstanding of time. He has transformed the monumentalspaces of the Palais de Tokyo and Tate Modern's Turbine Hall.Recent exhibitions include site-specific interventions in theRotunda of the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, and the Museo delPrado in Madrid. Parreno lives and works in Paris.