Villa Arson hosts two new exhibitions with distinct tones from June 30th to October 13th.
The French artist Brice Dellsperger presents his multi-screen video installation “Fucking Perfect Body Double 36” from June 30th to October 13th, within the Galerie Carré where it was created and produced in situ. This work is inspired by a form of body cult from the 1980s, represented by the film Perfect starring John Travolta. In this film, he plays a journalist who falls for a gym coach with an androgynous look. “My Body Double videos act as stand-ins for sequences from 70s or 80s films; the title refers to Brian De Palma’s film (Body Double, 1984). To date, it is a series of 40 films of varying lengths whose obsessive motif is the body of the body double in mainstream cinema. With a rigorous yet emancipative approach, I have each chosen scene re-enacted by a single cross-dressing actor, a super character playing all the roles by duplication,” says the artist.
[[Fucking Perfect Body Double 36, Video installation by Brice Dellsperger with Jean Biche. Production Villa Arson, 2019.]]
Monster Chetwynd is a British artist born in 1973 whose work is exhibited in London and Milan. Her universe is filled with the figure of the monster, embraced in all its forms (deformity, strangeness, absurdity…). She uses simple and inexpensive materials, giving her productions an ecological and “handmade” look. The exhibition at Villa Arson is the first of this scale in France and gathers about twenty works playing with lighting and unique soundscapes. Visitors can discover sculptures of fantastical animals, as well as a “Rebellion of the Fireflies” in homage to these insects, which are slowly disappearing from the planet.
[[Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Chunky & the Fire Costume, performance, CRICOTEKA, Kraków, Poland, November 23, 2014. © Monster Chetwynd. Courtesy of Sadie Coles HQ, London. Photo: StudioFILMLOVE]]
