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Component(s)
Participatory sound installation with asynchronous distributed audience playback.
Installation sonore participative avec diffusion sonore distribuée et asynchrone par les visiteurs.
Instalação sonora participativa com reprodução distribuída e assíncrona pelos visitantes.
16 April - 23 May 2026
bigaignon
18 rue du Bourg-Tibourg, Paris 4, FranceIn depth
Lumen (action), 2026is a drawing created without the hand touching the paper. Pieces of graphite are placed between a container held against the sheet and the surface of the paper. A series of vigorous gestures sets the graphite fragments into orbit, guided by a mental projection of how the material will impact the texture of the sheet. Requiring intense physical effort—almost athletic in nature—the action also has a choreographic and sonic dimension. The impacts of the graphite resonate sometimes to natural elements. The small graphite fragments that mark the surface come from broken pencils, pieces that are usually discarded without a second thought. The artist, however, does not abandon them: he collects them and offers them a second life. Where they once seemed useless, he restores their ability to draw again, without the hand, carried by movement, gesture, and energy.
Component(s), 2026
Sound environment
(ca. 90 mins in loop),
a collaboration between Jakub Rokita and Diogo Pimentão. Sound Installation: The exhibition features a sound installation developed by Jakub Rokita, derived from recordings of drawings by Diogo Pimentão. The work maintains a unified sonic language, using only recordings of Diogo’s graphite processes. Atmospheric layers are generated through algorithmic time-stretching, forming a continuous ground over which individual gestures surface and recede. The work incorporates a participatory element, inviting visitors to activate distributed playback via their phones, shaping the sonic environment in real time.
A participatory sound installation built from graphite drawing recordings, unfolding as a 90-minute composition.
Audience members access the work via QR code, play it on their phones’ loudspeakers while they move through the exhibition, creating a distributed layer of playback that drifts in and out of the shared acoustic space.
PRÉSENCE
VERNISSAGE JEUDI 16 AVRIL
Nous sommes heureux de vous inviter au vernissage de l'exposition "Présence" de l'artiste portugais Diogo Pimentão qui se tiendra jeudi 16 avril 2026, de 18h à 21h.
À première vue, le dessin semble relever d’un geste intime et discret, proche de l’écriture. Pourtant, dans le travail de Diogo Pimentão, il dépasse largement cette définition pour s’inscrire dans l’espace et engager le corps. À l’occasion de sa première exposition personnelle à la galerie, l’artiste nous invite à considérer le dessin comme une forme active, capable d’agir, de résonner et de dialoguer avec l’architecture environnante.
La pratique de Diogo Pimentão explore le graphite comme une matière à part entière, accumulée et transformée par des gestes répétés. Les surfaces obtenues, denses et presque métalliques, brouillent les frontières entre dessin et sculpture. Alors que Diogo Pimentão privilégie les variations de tons et de textures, il crée des œuvres qui oscillent entre surface et volume, maîtrise et imprévisibilité, où la trace devient forme.
S’inscrivant dans un héritage proche du minimalisme, son travail en détourne toutefois la clarté en introduisant une ambiguïté perceptive. Le papier, travaillé et assemblé, prend l’apparence du métal et dialogue avec l’espace d’exposition, modifiant notre perception du poids, de l’échelle et de la solidité.
Diogo Pimentão propose ainsi un champ élargi du dessin qui invite le spectateur à se déplacer, à observer attentivement et à reconsidérer la nature de ce qu’il perçoit. Ce qui semble solide peut être fragile ; ce qui paraît simple peut être complexe ; ce qui se donne comme surface peut en réalité être volume. La présence de l’œuvre ne se déploie pleinement qu’à travers la nôtre.
Vernissage jeudi 16 avril 2026, de 18h à 21h
Exposition du 16 avril au 23 mai 2026
18 rue du Bourg-Tibourg, Paris 4PRESENCE
OPENING THURSDAY 16 APRIL
We are pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition “Presence” by Portuguese artist Diogo Pimentão, which will take place on Thursday, April 16, 2026, from 6 pm to 9 pm.
At first glance, drawing appears to belong to an intimate and discreet gesture, close to writing. Yet in Diogo Pimentão’s work, it goes far beyond this definition, expanding into space and engaging the body. On the occasion of his first solo exhibition at the gallery, the artist invites us to consider drawing as an active form, something that acts, resonates, and enters into dialogue with the surrounding architecture.
Diogo Pimentão’s practice explores graphite as a material in its own right, accumulated and transformed through repeated gestures. The resulting surfaces, dense and almost metallic, blur the boundaries between drawing and sculpture. By privileging variations in tone and texture, the artist creates works that oscillate between surface and volume, control and unpredictability, where the trace becomes form.
While rooted in a legacy close to minimalism, his work nonetheless diverts from its clarity by introducing a perceptual ambiguity. Paper, worked and assembled, takes on the appearance of metal and interacts with the exhibition space, altering our perception of weight, scale, and solidity.
Pimentão thus proposes an expanded field of drawing, one that invites the viewer to move, to observe attentively, and to reconsider the nature of what is perceived. What seems solid may be fragile; what appears simple may be complex; what presents itself as surface may in fact be volume. The presence of the work fully unfolds only through our own.
Opening : Thursday 16 April 2026 (6-9pm)
Exhibition: 16 April - 23 May 2026
18 rue du Bourg-Tibourg, Paris 4, France
Diogo PimentãoBio
Best known for his experimental works on paper, the artist Diogo Pimentão (Lisbon, 1973) lives and works in London. Studied at Ar.Co. Art Center and Visual Communication, Lisbon; in Gotland, and Centro Internacional de Escultura, Pero Pinheiro.
The practice of drawing is the central axis of his work, through which he redefines the very notion of drawing itself. Using mainly paper and graphite, at times in combination with concrete, video and performance, Diogo Pimentão's works complicate the categorical boundaries off drawing.
He often claims not to be interested in representation, that is, the hand-eye coordination necessary to produce a realistic image and the realistic image itself. Rather, his works on paper (but also cement, organic matter, books, graphite beads and reclaimed paper cuts) are a reflexion on power and vulnerability through a collaboration of sorts with materials.
By altering perceptions of materiality and space, his works invite viewers to reconsider their surroundings, shifting their understanding of depth, weight, and structure through the act of looking and moving within the exhibition space.
Diogo Pimentão’s work is a hybrid association between figures of recent abstract history (Morton Feldman, Agnes Martin, Yvonne Rainer, Richard Nonas, the Mono-Ha movement, Fernando Calhau and many others) and a far more unconventional daily practice of concentration on small invisible gestures – rather than conceptual constructs – that prepare the mind for the world. He believes in communication beyond words, in a world where language is an embodied form of nomadic attention to catch the ephemeral without breaking it.