FRENCH artist Philippe Parreno is opening a new show at Museo Jumex in Mexico City. This exhibition is titled Le Levadura y El Anfitrión (The Yeast and The Host) and is Parreno’s first solo exhibition in Mexico. Parreno is known for pioneering new art forms which make his exhibitions more collaborative and participative.
Exhibition view of Philippe Parreno: La levadura y el anfitrión, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, 2017.
Photograph courtesy: Andrea Rossetti
Exhibition view of Philippe Parreno: La levadura y el anfitrión, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, 2017.
Photograph courtesy: Andrea Rossetti
The exhibition includes new, existing and re-edited work across two floors. it creates a world that is constructed of temporal events using films, sound and light and orchestrated by a person moving throughout the gallery spaces. The second floor has a yeast colony breeding in a bioreactor of a control room which is connected to a computer meaning the micro-organisations adapt to events triggered by the human host – such as changing the light or sound sequence, or playing a film or musical composition on the piano. In response, the yeast sends back information that changes the lighting or the sounds within the museum, as well as dictating what is played on the screens on the first floor.
Exhibition view of Philippe Parreno: La levadura y el anfitrión, Museo Jumex,
Mexico City, 2017. Photograph courtesy: Andrea Rossetti
Exhibition view of Philippe Parreno: La levadura y el anfitrión, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, 2017.
Photograph courtesy: Andrea Rossetti
Exhibition view of Philippe Parreno: La levadura y el anfitrión, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, 2017.
Photograph courtesy: Andrea Rossetti
Parreno has previously exhibited at the Tate Modern Turbine Hall, the 22,000 square-metre Palais de Tokyo gallery space, the Museum of Modern Art and Park Avenue Amor in New York, The Serpentine Gallery London, Centre Pompidou in Paris and Modern Museet in Stockholm to name a few.
by Allie Nawrat
The exhibition is open from now until February 11, 2018.
Museo Jumex is part of the Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo located on Boulevard Miguel de Cervantes, Saavedra 303, Granada, 11520 Mexico City, Mexico