Veilhan xavier

studio venezia

interview by OLIVIER ZAHM
photography by LUCA MASSARO
translation by PEDRO RODRÍGUEZ

STUDIO VENEZIA, XAVIER VEILHAN, FRENCH PAVILION, VENICE BIENNALE 2017

OLIVIER ZAHM — What have you gotten out of seven months of intimate, intense contact with the hundred musicians you invited to play and record at the French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale?

XAVIER VEILHAN — It’s hard to say so soon. I didn’t want the Biennale to be an end in itself. I wanted it to be a turning point, a launchpad for other opportunities. That had a great impact on me because it was like being exposed to a kind of radiation, the positive radiation of music, with its great emotional charge. I hadn’t realized how great an effect being exposed to all that music would have. Little by little, the experience did more than change the limits…