ART-PRESENTATION: Loris Gréaud-Sculpt
Loris Gréaud is a conceptual installation artist, filmmaker and architect. He is recognized as one of the most important and influential artists of his generation. However, since the beginning of his career, the artist has refused to allow his biography to be published. Most of the biographies available are therefore knowingly incorrect or incomplete. His work is organized into projects rather than exhibitions.
By Efi Michalarou
Photo: LACMA Archive
“Sculpt”, is produced for The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and is Loris Gréaud’s first major exhibition project to take place on the West coast of the United States, as well as being his first feature-length film. Loris Gréaud since the early 2000s, he has developed a singular trajectory in the international contemporary art scene whereby he constructs unique environments to house disruptive elements, often with an ambiguous narrative that blurs the boundaries between fiction and reality. Rumors, poetry, viruses, architecture and demolition, academicism and self-negation are therefore regularly summoned in his work as it strives to oppose the separation between physical and mental spaces. “Sculpt” is scarcely a social science fiction movie. It depicts an international market organized around new shapes and experiences, all the more sought-after as they are almost unattainable. Thought recording and fascination for the inner space are no longer fantasies but truly the object of a global market, which thrives on a quest for these moments of pure intensity, beauty experiences, thought, and obsessions. The movie recounts how this ecosystem, equipped with new traders, middlemen, buyers, collectors and producers , is structured, and how this elite group sets up experiences whose unique object is a search for the masterpiece of this nature. No one suspects what is woven behind those « objects » as its counterpoint gets organized in parallel: a black market of impure experiences; a violent and dystopian world. The movie follows the thoughts of a man whom we don’t know much about. He seems to be constantly developing the very concept of what experiencing beauty, thought, or obsession can be, despite the risks that the subjects are exposed to in the long term. Convinced that he can enact the rules of this new world, he will soon discover that the inner space limits and the market representing them are now just as one. For this presentation, LACMA’s Bing Theater has been reconfigured for only one audience member at a time. Each screening will therefore turn into a rare and unique one-person experience, with the movie seemingly watching its visitor as it is watched.
Info: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), 5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, Opening 16/8/16 Due to the nature of the project and the uncertainty of the longevity of the loan, the film will be screened for an indeterminate period. Days & Hours: Mon, Tue & Thu 11:30, 13:00, 14:30 & 16:00, Fri 11:30, 13:00, 14:30 & 17:30, Sat & Sun 11:00, 12:30, 14:00, 15:30 17:00 & 18:00, Aall screenings are free and tickets are released in the morning on the day of each performance on site, www.lacma.org
