Loris Gréaud: The French Artist’s One-At-A-Time Film Project Opens At LACMA
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Still fromLoris Gréaud: _Sculpt._ Courtesy the Artist and LACMA, Los Angeles.
Loris Gréaud: The French Artist’s One-At-A-Time Film Project Opens At LACMA
"I always had in mind that this will take place a few kilometers from Hollywood studios. I’m trying to include my ‘film’ in a global gesture in the collective imagination of the film industry.”
A filmmaker, architect, and installation artist, Loris Gréaud is one of the most highly acclaimed French contemporary artists. Amongst his other honors, Gréaud was the first person to ever have a joint exhibition between the Louvre and the Centre Pompidou. His new piece, Loris Gréaud: Sculpt—an avant-garde film project viewable by only one person at a time—is currently on display at LACMA.
Gréaud spoke to us about the project, and shared stills from _Sculpt_.
**On the evolution of film:**
“I don’t think there is a true evolution of film. It’s actually quite conservative paradoxically—same as the art world. Trying to question the way it functions often produces the same result: a film. Zero-Sum Game.”
**On site-specificity:**
“The project has been made specifically for LACMA—even if it goes beyond the museum space. I always had in mind that this will take place a few kilometers from Hollywood studios. I’m trying to include my ‘film’ in a global gesture in the collective imagination of the film industry.”
**On the element of fantasy in art:**
“Art shouldn’t shape fantasy. Good art is certainly blurring \[fantasy\] with everything else, potentially making it porous to other feelings, gender, reality, time, forms, and so on.
**On the role of art in interpreting femininity:**
“I’m thinking of this J.G. Ballard quote from _Rushing to Paradise_ \[1994\]: ‘Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it’s we women who control magic.’ I personally don’t believe that art should or could change anything.”