"Slumber Party" Solo show by Benoît Piéron at the Chisenhale Gallery, London
Opening on November 14
Benoît Piéron creates moments, installations and objects. His work untangles the sensuality of plants, the borders of the body and the temporality of waiting rooms. From cosmogonic cabins and patchwork tents, to hand drawn wallpapers and metabolised gardens, Pieron’s practice is an art of survival. Living with and through various illnesses, his work deals with the uncertainty of life, death and immunity. His practice draws on surrounding hospitals and medical environments for materials, reappropriating them to unlock other enchanting worlds free of binaries and boundaries. For his Chisenhale commission, Piéron will produce a new body of work that explores illness and hallucination as spaces of potential and abundance. Piéron’s first artist publication will be developed alongside the commission.
Benoit Piéron had been nominated for the 23rd Pernod Ricard Foundation Prize "Horizone".
Benoît Piéron lives and works in Paris, France. Selected exhibitions include: Illness Shower, Galerie Sultana, Arles (2022); Deux drapeaux, une belladone, L’alcôve, Paris (2021); VIH/sida, l’épidémie n’est pas finie, Mucem, Marseille (2021); Plaid, Cité internationale des Arts, Paris (2021); Mort is more, Brasserie Atlas, Brussels (2021); Seconde peau, soft walls, patch.e.s & soap, Open Source Body, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2021); [Random], Centre d’Art Contemporain Les Tanneries, Amilly (2018), La redite en somme ne s’amuse pas de sa répétition singulière, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2016); Dans le sens des veines, Galerie Fernand Léger, Ivry-sur-Seine (2015).
Piéron has been nominated for the Prix 2022 Fondation Pernod Ricard. He has been in residence at the Fondation Hermès, Lyon (2010), the Casa de Velázquez- Académie de France, Madrid (2011), the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2020), and from September 2022, the Collection Pinault has welcomed Benoît Piéron as artist-in-residence in Lens. Benoît Piéron has been selected as a participant in La Becque's main residency program, which will begin in May 2024.
