Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Night Particles

Visual arts Focus
Centre Pompidou
octoberoct 2 - january – jan 2
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Curated by Marcella Lista 

With the support of the Fondation d'entreprise Hermès and Sylvie Winckler. 

The Centre Pompidou and the Festival d'Automne are co-producers of this exhibition.

Lights in the night, with Payal Kapadia and Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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Apitchapong Weerasethakul in the Midis de culture
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Book Homes, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Built around a wide-ranging interview and previously unpublished essays, this book offers a journey through the territories that the Thai filmmaker has inhabited and transformed over the last thirty years. Obtain

Masterclass with Apichatpong Weerasethakul
12 October at 3pm, cinema 1, level 1. Admission free, subject to availability.

Rencontres
From 9 to 13 October, Apichatpong Weerasethakul will accompany all the screenings of the Retrospective with a host of guests, including Tilda Swinton, Sakda Kaewbuadee Vaysse, Dennis Lim, Charles de Meaux, Simon Field, Antoine Thirion... Detailed programme to follow.

With the support of

The Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul is guest at the Festival d'Automne and Centre Pompidou. His exhibition, featuring around ten video installations, transforms the former solarium into a nocturnal space inhabited by biographical and architectural reminiscences.

Now emptied of its works, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's first artistic gesture is to conjure up night-time in the Pavillon Brancusi. This condition is certainly a pre-requisite for the presentation of video installations, but is also a means for shaping the experience of a visit which hovers between wakefulness and sleep. The works chosen by the artist result from a daily and diary-based practice which he assimilates into a sculptural process. From within this place where forms once rose up amidst the plunging rays of a zenithal light, reminiscences of past architectural forms are also preserved. The centrepiece of the exhibition is Solarium, a work first exhibited in 2024 at the Chiang Rai Biennale. It revolves around the reinterpretation of the plot of a 1981 Thai horror film in which a character has his eyes stolen and then wanders around in search of them. It brings a renewed approach to the question of blindness and the internal vision that is a driving force in his work. In resonance with his work Fiction, Apichatpong Weerasethakul also unfurls, in the Atelier Brancusi gardens, accounts of some of the dreams he has kept in his notebooks for decades.

Interview with Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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Complete retrospective of films and videos

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The desk that fear

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Mathilde Monnier
Territoires

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In Territoires, Mathilde Monnier will be taking over the galleries of the Centre Pompidou during the course of a weekend in order to bring us a piece that deals with memory and circulation, "a collection of gestures from her work over the past thirty years". In doing so, the choreographer sets up the possibility of playing out memory in the present, from now onwards, or by means of anticipation.
Centre Pompidou
octoberoct 2 - november – nov 2

Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Complete retrospective of films and videos

Visual arts Focus
Buy tickets

Apichatpong Weerasethakul presents the complete retrospective of his films at the Centre Pompidou. It consists of his eight feature films, thirty or so short (and rare) films, various collective works, and two feature films produced by him.
Centre Pompidou
octoberoct 5 – 14

Apichatpong Weerasethakul
A Conversation with the Sun (VR), extended edition

Performance Focus

The Thai filmmaker's second foray into performance art, A Conversation with the Sun (VR), extended edition, presented in Paris in a new version enhanced by a third part, uses virtual reality to create the conditions for a collective dream.
Centre Pompidou
octoberoct 23 – 26
Points communs – Théâtre 95
novembernov 12 – 13

Ligia Lewis
Still Not Still

Dance
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In Still Not Still, choreographer Ligia Lewis pursues her exploration into the silences and shadows of history. In this piece, the performers play out a score over and over again, the burlesque dimension of which makes it all the more tragic.
Centre Pompidou
novembernov 27 – 30

Forced Entertainment
Signal to Noise

Theatre

Over its forty years of existence, with Tim Etchells at the helm, the company has never stopped reinventing itself. And it continues to do so. Amidst an oscillating form of virtual reality, six performers find themselves deprived of their voices and their entire beings. The whole thing goes beyond all understanding... Welcome to this new world.
Centre Pompidou
decemberdec 13 – 22
Théâtre des Quartiers d'Ivry
januaryjan 22 – 26

Sébastien Kheroufi
Par les villages

Theatre
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Sébastien Kheroufi discovered Peter Handke's Par les villages at the onset of his artistic career. It evokes a writer's return to his native village. Amidst the twilight setting in which one universe declines in favour of another, the voices of the “offended and humiliated” break their silence.
Centre Pompidou
decemberdec 18 - january – jan 18

Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The desk that fear

Cinema
Free

To accompany the end of the exhibition Night Particules, Apichatpong Weerasethakul answers the question ‘Where do you stand? in this short film, portraying his office, his working environment, his research and creative gestures.