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PERMANENT
SÉANCE
Guillaume Paris
Permanent Séance
Sketch presents a new multi-channel video installation by French artist Guillaume Paris. Paris has created
a site-specific installation edited from his existing series of “Permanent Videos” created over the last decade.
Often appropriating found footage, from cartoons to propaganda and advertising, his perpetual loops explore
interconnected regimes of fascination and their symbolic orders. From fountains to pendulums, from hypnotic transience to amnesic permanence, the works establish paradoxical relationships to commemoration
and forgetting, presence and absence. The videos function alternatively as monuments and memento mori,
in an image saturated world. Manipulating the construct of the gallery at Sketch as a heterotopic space,
he combines individually looped elements into ambiguously shifting events, forming an ever-changing, eerie,
silent “chorus”.
Guillaume Paris (b. 1966 Abidjan, Ivory Coast) lives and works in London and Paris and has exhibited widely
internationally. His work has been presented in major museums including the Pompidou Center, the Palais
de Tokyo, the Jeu de Paume, the ZKM, the Shanghai Museum of Fine art, the Musée du Québec, the Sharjah
Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in Rhodes Island. Recent solo shows include Permanent Eternity,
Rotterdam International Film Festival; Miracolo, Misterio e Autorità, Effearte, Milan; Farce & Crime, Galerie de
Multiples, Paris; Mystère, Miracle et Autorité, Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris; Paved with Good Intentions, Paradise
Row, London. His work is included in several international collections including; Musée d’Art moderne et
Contemporain de Strasbourg; Fonds National d’Art Contemporain; Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, The
David Roberts Foundation, FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon and FRAC Pays de Loire.
Courtesy the artist + Paradise Row, London