Trampoline is pleased to support the production of Pierre Leguillon’s work for the Phenomenon festival on the Greek island of Anafi.
For its fifth edition, Phenomenon has invited French artist Pierre Leguillon to take part in the ten-day residency program on the island of Anafi in June-July 2024, and to present a site-specific work in relation to the island and its various histories.
Well-known for pushing the boundaries of contemporary art and cinema through his curatorial and critical practice, Pierre Leguillon has over the years developed a body of work characterized by humor and criticism. Site-specificity is an integral part of his artistic practice, which often adopts a performative approach in order to question and subvert systems of knowledge and art production. In his own words : “I work on what surrounds the work : the work of art, the museums, the situation. I always prefer to be at the margin rather than at the center”.
For Phenomenon, in keeping with the theme of “return”, Pierre Leguillon decided to revisit his own family history. Born into a family of bakers, he proposed working with the island’s one and only bakery to produce a special bread that would be sold throughout Phenomenon and beyond. Through this work, the artist aims to link the island’s personal and collective histories, activating individual and collective memories, thus creating a bridge between the local and the global, the periphery (a small island on the Aegean Sea) and the center (Europe’s metropolitan cities).
