GLENN LOWRY: Curator Christophe Cherix.
CHRISTOPHE CHERIX: Fade to Black is a project by Philippe Parreno. It includes a number of posters all printed with phosphorescent ink. You only see the imagery of those posters after they are exposed to light and suddenly plunged into darkness.
GLENN LOWRY: The posters, produced in 2003, show images relating to the artist’s work from the previous decade.
CHRISTOPHE CHERIX: One of them for instance, Argentina versus Netherlands, shows an image taken from a soccer game. What Parreno did was to ask students to replay a very famous soccer game, which took place during the World Cup in 1978. He asked the students to replay the game in the schoolyard like a classical theatrical play.
Philippe Parreno’s work often is based on events that he creates and which are, ephemeral. So those posters capture moments of those past events and try basically to bring them to us as Parreno called it as if they were just a flickering memory of his own work.
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