Patrick Beaulieu
Signs of disorientation
2018

Name: Signs of disorientation
Brand: Patrick Beaulieu
Price: 1400 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

During the summer of 2017 and 2018, Patrick Beaulieu realized the performative excursion EL PERDIDO. Travelling with the geographer Alexis Pernet on board a 1977 Dodge camper van, they set off on a journey in search of a non-existent place called The Forgotten Road. Continuously and deliberately lost, their trajectory was entirely dictated by the locals met on the road who guided them to nowhere. The journey begun in Lost City, Oklahoma during a total solar eclipse and ended up 3000 miles away in a Mexico City neighborhood. A series of artworks (installations, video, photographs, geopoetic maps and writings) emerged from this voyage based on intuition, encounter, disorientation, and surrender. Patrick Beaulieu is a multidisciplinary artist. His projects are intrinsically linked to ideas of mobility, forming a relationship to various territories by empirically addressing the question of geographical and social boundaries, and the boundary between reality and fiction. His interest in the journey and its inherent narrative has led him to focus on some of the elusive phenomena that surround us (migratory, meteorological, spiritual…), and the forces that act upon these. He has produced several bodies of work in the form of installations, videos, sculptures, photography, performances, in-situ/in-socius interventions, and archives. Over the last dozen years, he has built his practice around performative excursions across North America, Europe, and Asia. In 2013, he completed a trilogy of transfrontier odysseys titled VVV, in collaboration with writers, geographers, and philosophers. Together, they followed the migratory path of the monarch butterfly (Vecteur Monarque, 2007); chased the winds across America in a 25-day continental navigation (Ventury, 2010); and surrendered themselves to fate and luck on the roads of chance (Vegas, 2012). In the summer of 2014, Beaulieu embarked on a slow, month-long, meandering drift via kayak down the winding rivers that lead from southern Québec to the Atlantic Ocean, at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York (Meander). His work has been presented in several countries, most notably in solo exhibitions in the United States (Pacific Sky Exhibition); in Mexico (Centro de la Imagen), in Belgium (Experimental Intermedia), in Singapore (Plastique Kinetic Worms Art Centre Kinetic Worms Art Centre), and across Canada, including the Banff New Media Institute, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Gallery of Windsor, the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, the Centre Clark, the Centre d’exposition CIRCA, the Musée de Lachine, the Galerie des arts visuels de l’Université Laval, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Sherbrooke. His work is included in numerous public and private collections in Canada, the US, France, and Mexico. Beaulieu has also produced many public art projects in the form of performative or relational interventions, or as permanent public art installations within architectural and landscaped environments.

Creator:

Patrick Beaulieu (1974, Canadian)

Creation Year:

2018

Dimensions:

Height: 11.25 in (28.58 cm)Width: 15 in (38.1 cm)

More Editions & Sizes:

Edition of 5Price: $1,300

Medium:

Digital

Movement & Style:

Contemporary