Spectators enter a room left in total darkness. On the central wall, images of empty nighttime cityscapes are projected at a constant rhythm. Sporadically, an image of a man appears on the left wall, the right wall or both. The images disappear almost as suddenly as they appeared. On the main screen, a flow of empty scenes continue to float at its own, slower pace, becoming the visual baseline of a silent soundtrack.

This project was previously presented in different forms at School Gallery, Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo and the Singapore Art Museum (and reviewed in Le Monde - France - and Time Out Singapore -" Our Top 5 Picks"). It will be showcased in a new version reworked especially for FORMAT.

Artist Bio

Working mostly with the projected image, Emmanuel Guillaud has presented photographic slideshows and installations at the Singapore Art Museum (2011), the Palm Springs Museum of Art (USA - 2009), School Gallery, Paris (solo show, 2010), g/p gallery (Tokyo 2009) and the alternative art space Super Deluxe (Tokyo, 2006). He created In/Out (-Side), a site-specific project in form of a double installation set up in the underground and the woods of the former French Embassy in Tokyo, just before buildings were to be demolished (No man's land 2009 / 2010).

He has also shown works at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Tokyo (MOT) in 2005 and 2010 and participated in prestigious photography festivals such as Madrid’s PhotoEspana (2009) and Arles's Voies Off (2008).

He was called “artist to watch” by US art magazine Art and Living. He is represented by School Gallery in Paris (www.schoolgallery.fr)