BERTRAND LAMARCHE – Une descente dans le Funnel

10.9.–19.11.2023

The work of Bertrand Lamarche (*1966) is multifaceted and consists mainly of installations and films. In the Studiolo, he shows the work Une descente dans le Funnel [A Descent into the Funnel], which consists of two films strung together.
The film Poursuites (2017) is described by the artist as an “underground walk” without a real script. Using methods reminiscent of early cinema, Lamarche seeks depth on a flat surface, “an illusion that allows for reverie and self-forgetfulness”. Meanwhile, The Funnel (2023), filmed in the same reds and blacks and also playing with blur, shows a fixed camera shot of a construction revolving around itself. The rhythm of the movement and the repetitive music have a hypnotic effect. In a kind of intoxicated state, we thus enter an imaginary space, which the artist describes in an accompanying text.