C.H.Z. by Philippe Parreno

C.H.Z.

Philippe Parreno

C.H.Z.

C.H.Z. Philippe Parreno

Fondation Beyeler

We have been looking for life on an extra­solar planet with a mass similar to Earth’s and a star like the Sun, when it is more likely that we will find life on a planet smaller than Earth with more than one sun, dwarf stars. If life emerges from Continuously Habitable Zones (C.H.Z.) around these planets so does an interesting scenario. In a world with two suns, the vegetation would be black. Here, the boundary between science and fiction is unclear; science fiction is about meta-fictions, meta-images, and ultimately the creation of worlds.

A film linked to a territory. A piece of land in Rua do Tarrio, Famalic達o, next to Porto in Portugal. The landscape is shaped, carved by the movement and position of the camera, and because of the possibility of fiction nature becomes a landscape. There are no cuts in the film, but stretching and folding of spaces.

Black plants grow where images fade, and we are traveling into a new world. C.H.Z. literally transforms space into time and time into a cinematographic landscape.

The landscape becomes an art object that exists simultaneously in two worlds: the 2 + 1 dimensional world of a moving image and the 3 + 1 dimensional world of our physical reality. We are dealing with the creation of a two headed beast that survives the frame of its creation.

‌the heterogeneous, the abject, the gutter, the filthy, the snot, the scum, the excremental, rejected, pushed back, soiled, the stercoraceous, the dross, the ragged, eliminated, pulverized, ruined, fermented, rotting, spoiled, decomposed, negligible, the slag, the scoria, the putrescible, the turd, the dejection, the sewer, evacuated, discharged, released‌