"Portrait de l’artiste en ermite ornemental - Les images flottantes" de Patrick Corillon - Extracts

What a strange title! What if ornaments opened a door onto something essential? Such is Patrick Corillon’s daily experience. Transforming what could be little more than anecdotes, the Belgian plastic artist and storyteller creates fictions in which the world becomes populated by objects considered as living beings. “Donner sa langue au chat”* is enough to lead us into reveries that bring to mind scenes from childhood. Spectators become his accomplices on this imaginary journey and are invited to manipulate game boards which will lead them into flights of fancy and enable them to look the real world in the eyes. Patrick Corillon takes us on a great journey through literature and history. A creation in situ conceived for the Pénitents blancs as an homage to this place so conducive to meditation and to the long moments of reflection artistic processes sometimes require. 

 *literally, “to give one’s tongue to the cat”: to give up, especially in the context of a guessing game