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Panayiotou on how the French artist’s sculptures ‘look straight into the eyes of the viewer’
‘Christodoulos Panayiotou on Pierre Leguillon’s Fetishistic Objects’ is the first in a series of articles in which we asked nine artists to chose a colleague whose work has been on their mind.
1. Eyes are seeing organs; they provide vision. Hands are grasping organs; they make. Sometimes, eyes make do with things that hands make and, at other times, hands make just to be viewed. Often, hands fail to do, but succeed to make.
I have always admired Pierre Leguillon’s work: a vicious cycle of short circuits, in which seeing and making gloriously fail to keep any promise of stability. His ‘Museum of Mistakes’ (2013–ongoing), which collects items from posters to folk art, is a protest against the authoritativeness of value. Leguillon might be the opposite of a fetishist.