Philippe Parreno | The Guardian
La Quinta del Sordo. Photograph: Otero Herranz, Alberto/© Museo Nacional del Prado
By Adrian Searle
“Parreno’s film oscillates between surface and depth, light and shadow; between sound and vision, the pictorial spaces Goya created and the walls of the rooms they originally covered. This oscillation continues, like a tilting gyroscope, between past and present. At the end of the film, we see a crossroads at dusk, street lights, a row of buildings. We hear the traffic and the screeching brakes of a local train taking a bend in the track.”