Christina Kennedy selects a work by Philippe Parreno from the collection at IMMA
Philippe Parreno is part of a highly influential generation of artists that emerged in the 1990s. His work questions notions of time, reality and representation and has developed from a wide range of sources including art theory, philosophy, science fiction, popular culture and film.
The film The Boy from Mars (2003) comprises a series of slowly unfolding moments, 29 frames, in 11 minutes and 40 seconds, where the long intense focus of each frame of necessity captures the oblique beauty of random images that happen to occupy it.
