Béatrice Balcou

In her performances, sculptures and installations, Béatrice Balcou sets up situations proposing new exhibition rituals that challenge our way of looking and perceiving.

Her Untitled Ceremonies are performances centred on a work by another artist borrowed from a public or private collection, and all of them generate a distinctive time frame involving a specific event: the exhibiting of the work of art. With precision and subtlety Balcou looks into the attention given to the materiality of the artwork and the behaviour of the spectator. Here the work is not an ephemeral image to be rapidly identified or consumed, but rather a physical entity to be cared for and to spend time with as a group.