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Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
Pierre Leguillon's current studio is a small, homemade movie theatre cum bar in the Paris office of an architect and a photographer. The work he produces there he has dubbed La promesse de l'écran (The promise of the screen); it takes the form of a twice-monthly invitational, wherein invited artists are asked to present a screening program to an invited audience, intermittently interrupted for drinks by the screen's raising, which reveals the bar behind it.
Leguillon's non-narrative slideshows aim to evoke the limitless possibility for meaning inherent in images and ideas alike. A strain of wit always attends this ambition, modulating it and making it palatable. A photograph of an object, for example, will often subtly undermine that object's generally perceived identity, as when images of Carl Andre's sculptures are matched with Middle Eastern music and the words "Interlude: flying carpets." This teasing is in harmony with the slideshows' persistent sense of narrow evasion, the feeling that rhetorically coherent meaning is always about to be revealed in the next image.
Leguillon was born in 1969 and lives and works in Paris. He has exhibited widely in France and abroad. Recent projects have been hosted at CapcMusee d'art contemporain, Bordeaux (2008), Galerie Airs de Paris, Paris (2008), Galerie France Fiction, Paris (2008), and Galerie Antonio Henriques, Viseu, Portugal (2008). In 2003, the artist presented a series of performances at the Secession in Vienna. And in 2009, he will present the piece Slideshow/Cloakroom in the Paper Show at the Artist's Space, New York (curated by Raimundas Malasauskas).
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