Philippe Parreno: A Recital of True Events

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Pilar Corrias is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Philippe Parreno. A Recital of True Events offers fragmentary glimpses of potential futures via a series of drawings and paintings on paper that serve as storyboards for dormant films, comic books or scenarios awaiting actualisation. 

Akin to Stéphane Mallarmé’s The Book (1957) – the poet’s posthumously published collection of fragmentary notes, diagrams and mathematical calculations for the presentation of a total text whose exact purpose remains obscure – Parreno’s new intimate works on paper prophesy a narrative for a film that has always existed in the realm of potentiality, but whose realisation demands the invention of an origin.

Viewers are invited to decipher the signs written on Parreno’s open book, and consider how we might harness our power to birth fictions, to create space-time crystals that shimmer like waves in an ocean of emerging and vanishing worlds. What narratives will unfold? Will our voice(s) resonate?