Philippe Parreno: Thenabouts

In December 2016, ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) will present the first Australian solo exhibition of internationally acclaimed French artist and filmmaker, Philippe Parreno – one of the most significant contemporary artists working at the intersection between art and film.

Fresh from opening his triumphant exhibition Anywhen, the prestigious annual Hyundai Commission at London's premiere contemporary art gallery, Tate Modern, the artist will be in Australia to open Philippe Parreno: Thenabouts at Australia's only museum devoted to the moving image.

Introducing Parreno's innovative and experimental practice to Australian audiences and occupying ACMI's subterranean gallery, this exhibition will be the first-ever retrospective of Parreno's filmic works. Orchestrated as an evolving cinematic experience within the gallery, the exhibition will weave the films together with lighting, sound and sculptural elements. Through performance and programming, the exhibition invites visitors to enter a world between reality and fiction, in which every visitors viewing experience will be unique.

For nearly three decades Parreno has been producing films and exhibitions that subvert audience expectations and seek to redefine the exhibition experience. He has become known for creating exhibitions that are played according to a score, working with a script that serves to structure a sequence of events – choreographing a mise-en-scene through which to explore the nature of images, duration, memory, and the passage of time. This exhibition will enfold visitors within a composition of image and sound in which time is not chronological, and a moment becomes eternity.