Philippe parreno biography of mahatma

Philippe Parreno (b. 1964) lives and works in Paris.

Philippe Parreno creates artworks that question the boundaries between reality and fiction, exploring the nebulous realm in which the real and the imagined blur and combine.

Working in a diverse range of media including sculpture, drawing, film, and performance the internationally acclaimed French artist seeks to expand our understanding of duration, inviting us to radically re-evaluate the nature of reality, memory, and the passage of time.

Philippe parreno biography of mahatma

Central to Parreno’s practice is his quest for an ultimate form of communication capable of transcending language.  

Taking the exhibition as a medium, Parreno has radically redefined the exhibition experience by exploring its possibilities as a coherent ‘object’ rather than as a collection of individual works.

To this end, he conceives his shows as a scripted space where a series of events unfolds. The visitor is guided through the gallerie