In-situ version at the Singapore Art Museum
I understood that I would need to decipher differently the thousand and one mysteries contained in Emmanuel Guillaud’s proposals.
Secret, suspended, heretical proposals—in the sense Pasolini gave to the word “heretical,” as a breach that opens onto a wider field…
I entered a bath of images that sliced through the darkness, unfolding at different rhythms, abandoning me to the excesses of a journey at times deserted by humanity, at others intensely inhabited—some visions striking with the force of a slap.
The silence of this soundtrack chattered like teeth. Fever recited places as it did bodies.
In these installations prepared like rituals, Emmanuel Guillaud escapes the constraints of traditional narrative duration…
The shifting worlds he creates are not there to reassure. Night is a territory where everything seems allowed, yet where nothing ever quite reaches resolution.
Emmanuel Guillaud leaves us the sole judges of this singular journey—an orchestrator of expectations, amoral.
Infinitely mortal. Feverishly alive.
(Excerpt from a text by Pierre Giquel, written for the version at School Gallery, Paris)
“In the labyrinth of ropes, screens, and images floating in the dark, the tension is palpable—even in the suspensions used to hold the screens.
By disorienting the viewer and placing them at the center of the setup, Guillaud activates those sensations of tension and excitement we feel when entering abandoned places, making tangible that altered state that marks the rise of desire.
(Guillaume Lasserre, MediaPart)
(Manon Klein)
“master of phantasmagorias.”
(Manon Klein)
Installation view of the in-situ version at Noorderlicht Gallery, Netherlands
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Emmanuel Guillaud
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