Guillaume Leblon: Parade

Parade is Guillaume Leblon’s first retrospective exhibition in Paris. For the occasion, he has designed a display that unfolds both inside and outside the Palais de Tokyo, including onto the esplanade that overlooks the Seine. As a sculptor, Guillaume Leblon does not conceive objects to be looked at, but likes to create a place, a theatre set, both intimate and public, physical and mental, through which the public can wander. For this exhibition, he has created a new version of his work Face contre terre (Face down, 2010-2022), which is made up of hundreds of items of furniture and scrap pieces of wood that together compose a materialist landscape that is a floor to walk across, but also the base for a series of sculptures mounted on a rail that create the sensation of movement, like figures on parade.