“VOICES” Poster Image ©Leeum Museum of Art
Leeum Museum of Art presents “VOICES”, the first large-scale solo exhibition of Philippe Parreno’s work in Korea, on view through July 7. “VOICES” marks the museum’s inaugural exhibition of 2024.
As an artist who has been experimenting with ways to examine artworks and exhibitions to explore the relationship between time and memory, perception and experience, and the viewer and art, Philippe Parreno proposes the ‘exhibition’ as a venue for experience beyond a mere event to brings together individual works.
“VOICES” features Parreno’s key works and early works from the 1990s, encompassing diverse media ranging from video and sound to sculpture and drawing, created in collaboration with graphic designers, photographers, musicians, linguists, sound specialists, and actors, among others. In addition, the exhibition also includes a large-scale outdoor installation Membrane (2024) commissioned by the museum. Equipped with a sensing system that collects all kinds of environmental data, including temperature, humidity, windspeed, noise levels, air pollution and even minute vibrations of the ground, Membrane sends this information into the museum’s interior, while also stimulating and modifying the exhibition.
To Philippe Parreno, an exhibition is not just an arrangement of artworks, but a creative act in its own right. As such, the exhibition shifts away from an object-centered approach to art and questions the interaction between art and the viewer, the relationship between artwork and space, and the ways and attitudes of looking at the exhibition.
