Pierre Leguillon

The Tholoto at the Bakery, 2024
Bread molds, bread

La Promesse de l’écran [The Promise of the Screen], since 2007
Mixed media, variable dimensions

Poster, Bus stop project

Pierre Leguillon is a French visual artist, who lives and works in Brussels. Leguillon works mainly on the production and reproduction of printed images that have reached a wide audience through their circulation in the mass media, through which he attempts to question the hierarchies of art.

For phenomenon 5, Pierre Leguillon decided to revisit his own family history. Born into a family of bakers, he proposed working with the one and only bakery of the island to produce a special bread that would be sold throughout phenomenon and beyond. Inspired by the traditional houses of Anafi, Leguillon designed the Tholoto, a bread that takes the form of the circular rooftops found on Anafi. Through this work, the artist aims to link the personal and collective histories of the island, activating individual and collective memories, thus creating a bridge between the local and the global, the periphery (a small island in the Aegean Sea) and the center (Europe’s metropolitan cities).

As part of the public program, Leguillon also presented La Promesse de l’écran [The Promise of the Screen], a retractable projection apparatus, at Mylos Bar. More specifically, Leguillon chose to screen Manuel de photographie [Manual of Photography], that brings together dozens of film extracts that showcase the history of photography and its uses. An anthology of film sequences to learn how to frame, shoot, light, develop but also, perhaps, commit suicide with your camera.