Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Night Particles
octoberoct 2 - january – jan 2
© Centre Pompidou, Audrey Laurans ©
© Centre Pompidou, Audrey Laurans ©
© Centre Pompidou, Audrey Laurans ©
Curated by Marcella Lista
With the support of the Fondation d'entreprise Hermès and Sylvie Winckler.
The Centre Pompidou and the Festival d'Automne are co-producers of this exhibition.
Lights in the night, with Payal Kapadia and Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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Apitchapong Weerasethakul in the Midis de culture
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Book Homes, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Built around a wide-ranging interview and previously unpublished essays, this book offers a journey through the territories that the Thai filmmaker has inhabited and transformed over the last thirty years. Obtain
Masterclass with Apichatpong Weerasethakul
12 October at 3pm, cinema 1, level 1. Admission free, subject to availability.
Rencontres
From 9 to 13 October, Apichatpong Weerasethakul will accompany all the screenings of the Retrospective with a host of guests, including Tilda Swinton, Sakda Kaewbuadee Vaysse, Dennis Lim, Charles de Meaux, Simon Field, Antoine Thirion... Detailed programme to follow.
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The Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul is guest at the Festival d'Automne and Centre Pompidou. His exhibition, featuring around ten video installations, transforms the former solarium into a nocturnal space inhabited by biographical and architectural reminiscences.
Now emptied of its works, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's first artistic gesture is to conjure up night-time in the Pavillon Brancusi. This condition is certainly a pre-requisite for the presentation of video installations, but is also a means for shaping the experience of a visit which hovers between wakefulness and sleep. The works chosen by the artist result from a daily and diary-based practice which he assimilates into a sculptural process. From within this place where forms once rose up amidst the plunging rays of a zenithal light, reminiscences of past architectural forms are also preserved. The centrepiece of the exhibition is Solarium, a work first exhibited in 2024 at the Chiang Rai Biennale. It revolves around the reinterpretation of the plot of a 1981 Thai horror film in which a character has his eyes stolen and then wanders around in search of them. It brings a renewed approach to the question of blindness and the internal vision that is a driving force in his work. In resonance with his work Fiction, Apichatpong Weerasethakul also unfurls, in the Atelier Brancusi gardens, accounts of some of the dreams he has kept in his notebooks for decades.
Interview with Apichatpong Weerasethakul
