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Patrick Corillon

Video installation — Musée d'histoire de la médecine

patrick corillon, la crue de la garonne à toulouse, 2003

projection vidéo, 7'

coproduction printemps de septembre

courtesy in situ / fabienne leclerc, paris

patrick corillon, la crue de la garonne à toulouse, 2003

projection vidéo, 7'

coproduction printemps de septembre

courtesy in situ / fabienne leclerc, paris

Born in 1959 in Knokke-le-Zoute (Belgium), he lives in Paris.

 

Made for the Musée de la Médecine, Patrick Corillon’s work takes visitors into a fantastic story, which seems to unfold before their eyes. Conceived in the form of a projected animation film, the installation allows the story and the text to take on physical form. Starting with what could well be facts, the artist presents a strange fable whose main setting is the banks of the Garonne. The key protagonists are a child and a mysterious surgeon who has invented an unorthodox cure based on the memory of a gesture that is embedded in the body. “Evidence” is produced to prove the reality of these events and placed alongside the collections in the museum display cases. Corillon thus subtly measures the gaps between reality and fiction, imagination and memory.