A landmark retrospective.
Accompanying Philippe Parreno's
Voices exhibitions at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul and Haus der Kunst in Munich, conceived as a journey around a unique creative process, the book
Voices serves as both an origin and a counterpart to the exhibition. This volume stands as a retrospective in itself, a living archive of
Voices that have shaped the artist's practice over the decades.
Photographed and designed by
M/M (Paris), the publication is conceived as more than a traditional exhibition catalog. Structured as an immersive and interwoven stream of consciousness,
Voices merges text and image, reflecting the experience of Parreno's work in print form. The book includes newly commissioned texts by
François J. Bonnet and Kim Choyeop, a conversation between Sungwon Kim and Andrea Lissoni, as well as a personal contribution from Mathias Augustyniak and an essay by Philippe Parreno himself.
Through critical reflections and speculative fiction,
Voices expands on Parreno's exploration of language, presence, and perception. François J. Bonnet examines listening as an active and fluid encounter, while Kim Choyeop's short story imagines a world where lost
Voices become an archive of memories. Their contributions situate Parreno's work within a broader discourse of sound, temporality, and interconnected experience.
Far from being a static record,
Voices operates as an independent artistic object—one that invites readers to engage with the polyphony of ideas, histories, and specters that define Parreno's universe. As the artist himself suggests, "The voice continues to generate itself… like a journey: we leave Seoul, move to Munich, and finally arrive in the desert."
Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibitions at by Haus der Kunst München and Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, in 2024-2025.
Born 1964 in Oran, Algeria, Philippe Parreno lives and works in Paris. Since the 1990s, Philippe Parreno's reputation has been built on his work's originality and on the diversity and variety of his practice. He views the exhibition as a medium, an object in its own right, an experience whose every possibility he seeks to explore. Preferring projects to objects, Philippe Parreno examines different approaches to narration and representation through film, sculpture, performance, drawing and text.
