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.
