Philippe Parreno: Voices

Leeum Museum of Art presents VOICES, the first solo exhibition of the internationally renowned French artist Philippe Parreno to be held in Korea. As the largest survey of the artist to date in Asia, the exhibition provides a comprehensive experience of Parreno’s oeuvre from the nineties to the present. Showcasing the most representative pieces from his thirty-year career, as well as new works created on the occasion of the show, the exhibition spans multiple spaces within the museum.

Philippe Parreno challenges the traditional notion of the artist and refuses to be a producer of objects. By exploring the dynamic relationship between exhibition and artwork, and offering “experiences of time,” he pioneered a revolutionary shift in contemporary art forms of the 1990s. Utilizing the methodologies and vocabulary of different media like radio, television, film, and advanced information technology, he tore down the boundaries between reality and fiction, prompting non-linear temporality and radical changes in narrative structure. Multi-layered and intricately interwoven, his works are and in endless motion, impossible to reduce to a single position or medium. To Philippe Parreno, an exhibition is not just an arrangement of artworks, but a creative act in its own right.