Philippe Parreno 100 Questions, 50 Lies (Storyboard), 2023

The painting belongs to a body of work entitled 100 questions, 50 lies, (Storyboard) that Philippe Parreno created in preparation for an upcoming film, which began production in 2023. Each painting offers a fragmentary glimpse of potential futures: scenes, landscape designs, and imagined realities to influence the cinematography of the film, and function as a storyboard for its production. The subjects of the paintings remain elusive and mysterious, following the artist's notion that they circumscribe a film that has always existed in the realm of potentiality, but whose realization demands the invention of an origin.

While Parreno is best known for his radical rethinking of the exhibition experience, placing its construction at the heart of his process, drawing and painting have remained an integral part of his practice throughout. For several of his film and installation works, including Anywhere Out of the World (2009–17), C.H.Z (2011) or Marilyn (2012), the artist produced extensive conceptual drawings that sometimes also functioned as storyboards. Following his Fireflies series (2012–16) of standalone drawings, the new series of paintings highlights Parreno's ongoing engagement with this medium.