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Working on a commission from the Musée de la danse, Pierre Leguillon (F, 1969, based in Brussels)  went in search of photographs to build a network of associations linked with the idea of dance. Images of dancing, or that dance in their own right? Dealing with movement at the margins – details, echos, gestures, allusions – above all, they are  signs in circulation, linked by historical, thematic or simply subjective connections. To bring these unrelated images, gathered from the internet to the public, Leguillon hatched a kind of escape plan in several phases: from classifying, to displaying in public, to uploading onto FlickR, and finally to their material presence in the exhibition space, in the style of a mobile mini-museum of dance. Taking these scattered photographs as a starting point, each of us can imagine their own story, recreating their own choreography in the manner of a flip-book.

Pierre Leguillon is a French artist, curator and author. He teaches at HEAD in Geneva, and is the creator of unique books including Oracles. Artists’ Calling Cards (Pierre Leguillon and Barbara Fédier ed., 2017), and the forthcoming The Museum of Mistakes, both published by Editions Patrick Frey.