Artists

Benoît Piéron

Press release

Benoît Piéron’s works offer experiences of suspended time, waiting, hallucination, and reverie, through a subversion of functional and clinical aesthetics. By reintroducing tenderness and desire where they have been erased, the artist unfolds alternative narratives of bodies, affects, and spaces related to illness. More recently, discovering that he is intersex has deeply broadened Piéron’s perspective on the political treatment of certain forms of existence.

This new exhibition presents an erotic and abstract film conceived as a shadow theatre, projected within a scenography imbued with an unsettling strangeness. Drawing on both functional urban design and the realm of magic, this uncanny set gives form to the notion of impermanence—of statuses, identities, physical and psychic states—ultimately becoming a site for collective imagination.