AC/DC Platform, 2013 (left)

Opalescent acrylic glass podium, LED lights, 3 plugs, 2 AC/DC snakes

Assembled from multiple adapters, plugs and nightlights, AC/CD snakes were first created in 1995 at the occasion of Parreno’s exhibition Snow Dancing at Le Consortium in Dijon. The podium is lit from the inside in a predetermined rhythm; the nightlights glow in the intervals when the lights of the podium are dimmed.

Flickering Light, 2013 (left, back and center)

LED light, 1 programmed chip

The light in the vertical lamps is programmed using a DMX controller to flicker in a predetermined rhythm. At the artist’s 2013 solo exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo 56 of the lamps were programmed to flicker in correspondence to a timecode based on Igor Stravinsky’s Petrushka.

Snow Drift, 2014 (detail; back)

Artificial snow, diamond powder, clay

Snow Drift consists of artificial snow mixed with elements of diamond powder and clay to create a snowy landscape. The work refers to Parreno’s 1993 No More Reality.

Quasi Objects: My Room is a Fish Bowl, AC/DC Snakes, Happy Ending, Il Tempo del Postino, Opalescent acrylic glass podium, Disklavier Piano, 2014 (detail)

Each element refers to an important early exhibition in which one of the quasi-objects was included. Together they can be understood as a network of quasi-objects and as a self-reflective genealogy of the artist’s exhibition practice since the mid 1990s.

Photo © Andrea Rossetti