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"Darwin": a visual and sound experience at Angle art contemporain

Contemporary Art | While the work of Jean-Pierre Bertrand uses a variety of media, at Angle art contemporain, he settled on an installation derived from a video piece made in 2000 in Darwin. Each of Jean-Pierre Bertrand’s exhibitions proceeds from a reflection on space. Here, it thus reduces the entire place to a box of sound images which the visitor explores, immersed in the nature of a park in Darwin, northern Australia. In this unique environment, the 4’07 minute-long film spreads over the three levels of the art centre and presents a montage structured around image and sound intervals interspersed with black backgrounds. Using visions from the other side of the world, Jean-Pierre Bertrand literally plunges us into a fictional space where 12 film shots become a paradoxical space, creating an odd sensation.