“La chaine est belle…” David Lynch told me that he only was sure that his film would start with an image of the road sign, Mulholland Drive, and that a series of small stories would be linked together. In Philippe Parreno's artistic vocabulary, the chain is the dynamic structure that leads to the production of forms. It is the process in the making of a project (be it a film, a building, or an exhibition) where sense and narrative come from the whole continuum of the chain. Parreno expresses his extreme suspicion toward the idea of the scenario as an object but also toward how we apprehend images as objects, as the sole and ultimate result of the production process:

El sueño de una cosa shows a collaborative project by Parreno with architect François Roche for Rirkrit Tiravanijas The Land, an architecture which is producing a film. Nature is used to produce the interface, a live elephant and/or bull will generate the power/energy necessary. According to Parreno it is about the connection in a postapocalyptic situation, also about self organization and self sustainability

Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2005 (translation: Tim Sharp)