DOUBLE CARRIE ?

In order to celebrate the 20th year of my artistic dedication to the possibilities contained by the body double, I decided to work on a film that deeply influenced my cinephilia: Brian De Palma’s masterpiece, Carrie.

This film is indelibly imprinted on my mind, and the time has come to remake a section of it.

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Exhibition view, Body Double 22, Brice Dellsperger/Jean-Luc Verna, Sala Verónica, La Conservera, 2011

The moment Carrie becomes a woman is the most important to me; in this instant, she becomes another. It is a disturbing moment that definitely influenced me throughout my life.

In the locker room shower, Carrie gets her period and does not understand what is happening to her. She immediately becomes the laughing stock of the other girls, all of whom are already women.

Different, she finds herself stigmatized, ostracized...

Carrie chooses revenge, I chose art.

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Exhibition view, Body Double 29, 15 et 30, Portraits d'intérieurs, NMNM Monaco, 2014

WHAT’S A BODY DOUBLE?

Deeply serious, anchored in queer theory but also humorous, my Body Double works are film duplicates. Like decals made shot by shot from original films, I produce transvestite doubles of iconic cinema. My works play with the concepts of memory, the copy, the tribute, and impersonation.

By upsetting normative sexuality and making my characters appear uniquely transgender, I deconstruct the importance of social criteria and offer hybrid works that shift between cinema and art. Of primary importance to me is to highlight the power of freedom and self-acceptance.

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Brice Dellsperger and Jean-Luc Verna on the set for Body Double 22 (after Eyes Wide Shut, S. Kubrick)

Extract from Body Double 34 (G. Van Sant - My Own Private Idaho)

WHAT IS OUR PROJECT?

With this project and new video, I am embarking on an even more complex challenge than usual. My desire is to always exceed prior projects, to push my own limits (both technical and narrative) so that I can design a copy that in some ways has no precedent.

Body Double 32 will not be a simple decal but a kind of temporal and spatial contraction of De Palma’s feature film.

One actor will play all of the girls in the film in a looped scene. Repeatedly the characters with fade, move apart and pass away, only to come back again and play the score in an endless loop.

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Exhibition view, Body Double 27, Like Mirror, Brice Dellsperger and Natacha Lesueur, Transpalette, Bourges, 2013

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Brice Dellsperger and Morgane Rousseau on the set for Body Double 17 (after Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me, D. Lynch)

GENDER IS THE WORD

Raised with films, music videos, performances and disco music, my work is part of a double reflection on gender: sexual gender and artistic genre.

Always situating myself between the feminine and the masculine, video art and cinema, I question this otherness, this double mirror, which always invites us to change our expectations.

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Vidéo Still from Body Double 29 (M. Nichols - Postcard from the Edge)

WHERE WILL OUR FILM BE SHOWN?

Represented for more than 20 years by galerie Air de Paris (Paris) and Team Gallery (New York), I have had the chance to show my work in many museums and prestigious venues, such as the Museum Modern Art of Moscow, Le Studio (Galerie Yvon Lambert), the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, Centre Pompidou in Metz, Akbank Art Center in Istanbul, or Art Basel Miami Beach in Miami and Art Unlimited in Basel, Switzerland.

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Exhibition view, Body Double 27, Like Mirror, Brice Dellsperger and Natacha Lesueur, Transpalette, Bourges, 2013

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Exhibition view, Body Double 30, Portraits d'intérieurs, NMNM Monaco, 2014

BRICE AND ALEX

Using the soundtracks of auteur films or general-public feature films such as Brian De Palma’s Body Double, Andrzej Zulawski’s L’important c’est d’aimer, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, David Lynch's Twin Peaks, Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut or Paul Verhoeven's Basic Instinct, I invite the viewer to imagine an infinite multiplicity of forms of desire facing his own image.

Body Double 30 (B. De Palma - Dressed to Kill)

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Brice Dellsperger and Jean-Luc Verna on the set for Body Double 12 (after Blow Out, B. De Palma)

Alexandre Wetter is a young actor and model. He will play Carrie, and may also become a new icon of the 21st century, the icon of an uncertain genre.

For Body Double 32, Alexandre will play Carrie and all of her locker room cohorts. It will be one girl and all girls, him and the others.

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Alex during the preparation of Jean-Paul Gaultier's fashion show, janvier 2016

20 YEARS OF BODY DOUBLE

Kubrick, De Palma, Gus Van Sant, Zulawski and the others !

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Vidéo Still from Body Double 33 (B. De Palma - Passion)

Body Double (X) (A. Zulawski - L'important c'est d'aimer)

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Vidéo Still from Body Double 31 (P. Verhoeven - Basic Instinct)

Body Double 22 (S. Kubrick - Eyes Wide Shut)

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Vidéo Still from Body Double 29 (M. Nichols - Postcard from the Edge)

Body Double 13 (J. Bahdam - Saturday Night Fever)

MORE ABOUT MY WORK

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Team Gallery: http://teamgal.com/

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Exhibition view, Body Double 22, Brice Dellsperger/Jean-Luc Verna, Sala Verónica, La Conservera, 2011

THANKS FOR BEING PART OF THIS ADVENTURE!

Ve-bd_lores-1477034316 Monography Body Double by Brice Dellsperger in english version, with an essay by Marie Canet "Posture and High Heels", Toastink Press / Les Presses du réel / Sternberg Press (2011)

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