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Pilar Corrias is pleased to present El Almendral, Philippe Parreno’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery and the artist’s first at Conduit Street. El Almendral blends real landscape with cinematic creation into a hybrid form.

An almond grove is typically a garden of almond trees; here, it represents a locality, ‘El Almendral’. Located within a 33-hectare plot north of the Tabernas Desert in the province of Almería, this project functions simultaneously as an ecological habitat and a dynamic film set. It is supported by a newly created park envisioned as a site of transformation where a landscape and its representation can meet.

The resulting film El Almendral, streams directly into the main gallery space continuously in real-time, day and night, forming a living narrative responsive to environmental shifts, seasonal cycles and silent transformations. Landscape modifications include sustainable technologies such as solar power installations, moisture-collecting cloud nets, energy-generating wind traps and biodiversity-enhancing plantings. Audiovisual equipment continuously captures environmental transformations, reflecting the site’s evolving nature. Film production is approached similarly to agriculture – images are metaphorically cultivated, harvested and edited, paralleling local farming practices. Uniquely, the project grants the landscape legal self-ownership, recognising its non-human nature. El Almendral redefines the relationship between reality and fiction, between land and landscape, transforming traditional understandings of ecological consciousness.