Patrice Duhamel

Over a ten year span, Patrice Duhamel developed a complex universe in which drawing, video, music, art criticism and curatorial practice echo each other. Three years after his death, the Centre Clark, of which he was an active member, is dedicating an exhibition to him by offering a collective of artist-curators the two gallery rooms, so that we may, once again, appreciate the surprising meanders of his thoughts and visions. The first-time retrospective will present an overview of this artist, who was keenly attuned to the difficulties we face in trying to seize what binds us to others and the world. Duhamel was an existentialbricoleur who continuously found new forms for our inadequacies by combining bodies and objects in a game of unexpected possibilities. It is at once through a rigorous introspection and the deployment of a vast network of literary and cinematic references that he carried out this exploration into which never failed to inject a dose of the absurd humour he was so fond of.