Inverted Topiary 6, 2011 - ink on drawing paper, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen / Basel Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
Continuously Habitable Zones aka C.H.Z., 2011 - Film still Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel and Courtesy Gallery Esther Schipper
Opening Shot, 2011 - ink on two sheets of drawing paper, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen / Basel Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
Marilyn Monroe, in preparation for a spiritist session, 2012 - Maja Hoffmann / LUMa Foundation - Photo: Adam Reich
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For his exhibition at the
Fondation Beyeler, French artist Philippe Parreno presents two new films
mise en scene with a choregraphy of sound and images that guides the
visitor throughout the space. The first film C.H.Z. ("Continuously Habitable Zones")
is linked to a territory. The film gives perspective to a black garden
constructed in Portugal. A landscape produced a film, and a film
produced a landscape. The landscape is perennial; it is what the image
rejects. A second film, Marilyn, is a portrait of a ghost,
Marilyn Monroe. The film conjures her with a phantasmagoric seance in
the suite at the hotel Waldorf Astoria in New York where she lived in
the 1950s. Her presence is reproduced by three algorithms: the camera
becomes her eyes, a computer reconstructs the prosody of her voice and a
robot recreates her handwriting. The dead is incarnated in an image.
Fondation Beyeler /Basel
Philippe Parreno
10.6. - 30.9.2012
