Pierre Leguillon

Feuille de chou géante, 2026
Banc 1956, 2026
La grille du parc. Le Musée des Erreurs au Parc de Szilassy, 2026

Found objects, discovered images and anonymous works form the basis of Pierre Leguillon’s practice. Since founding Le Musée des Erreurs in his apartment in 2013, he has used this travelling museum to explore who decides what counts as art and the institutional systems behind those decisions. For his contribution at Szilassy Park, the artist takes as his starting point the long wrought-iron fence that winds along the lower reaches of the park – a structure whose creator remains unknown.

For Leguillon, that fence serves as a thread linking together fragments of Bex’s history. During a guided tour, he touches on stories such as the town’s former paper mill, the life and work of artist Marguerite Burnat-Provins, and actress Delphine Seyrig’s appearance in Michel Soutter’s 1977 film Repérages, shot in the now-demolished Grand Hôtel des Salines. The walk departs from a bench reconstructed from an amateur photograph, taken in 1956, which shows the bench up against a short section of wooden fence apparently marking the boundary of a garden. In Szilassy Park, however, the wooden fence no longer encloses anything and now serves simply as a backrest. At the far end of the wrought-iron fence, visitors encounter a barn whose rear gable is decorated with a giant ceramic cabbage leaf inspired by the work of Lisbon artist Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, one of 19th-century Portugal’s leading caricaturists and ceramicists.

The wrought-iron fence, the bench, the cabbage leaf – which of these things actually belong in the park? Leguillon leaves that question open, suggesting connections between objects, site and history..

Pierre Leguillon (F, b. 1969*) lives and works in Belgium, France, and Switzerland.