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Patrick Corillon is the creator of an abundant body of work at the intersection of contemporary art, literature and spectacle. A narrator and fabulist, the artist brings together bits of reality in order to create fictions. For example, he has dreamed up a dozen characters who exist and evolve from one exhibition to another via snatches of biography. Since 2007 he has been taking to the performing arts, putting on musical shows and other performances. Each project is accompanied by a book-object, and Le Benshi d’Angers is no exception. In this show Corillon gives a first-person account of the history of his family home, which he and his brother set out to empty before putting it up for sale. A brochure that belonged to his grandmother, which he finds in the attic, becomes the starting point for countless delightful digressions.
Like benshi, the Japanese storytellers who accompanied silent films, Patrick Corillon projects and presents the pages of a book that he has drawn himself. He thus relates a personal story punctuated with family memories, historical narratives and distant legends inviting viewers on a poetic, graphic journey.
Aknowledgement: MJC Roguet Saint-Cyprien