The eyes like nomadic orbs, wandering the screen and inquiring the floor, like vagabond satellites in stray orbits — eyeballs in search of their owners, lost or liberated from what once held them transfixed — are the centrepieces of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s new exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
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The eyes like nomadic orbs, wandering the screen and inquiring the floor, like vagabond satellites in stray orbits — eyeballs in search of their owners, lost or liberated from what once held them transfixed — are the centrepieces of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s new exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Opening last Tuesday, “Particules De Nuit” (“Night Particles“) turns the brutalist Pavilion Brancusi — an architectural space just outside the escalator-encased Pompidou proper — into a nocturnal shelter of lights.
The exhibition is a part of the Pompidou’s retrospective of the Thai artist put together under the theme “Des Lumières Et Des Ombres” (“Of Lights And Shadows“), consisting of the screenings of all his films, feature and short, a masterclass, a VR show titled A Conversation With The Sun (staged in Chiang Rai earlier in January), and a beautiful book of…