The oeuvre of Christophe Berdaguer & Marie Péjus is made up of many different procedures which engage the spectator in the direction of a perceptible and psychological experience of space. This is just a partial entry into their work, chosen here to incorporate it as an echo of a history of the modernist utopia. Forms borrowed from history, inner images, mental projections, but also chemical substances, olfactory atmospheres, systems of influence and conditioning, interplays on altered states of consciousness… […] It is precisely in the blind spots of modern utopia that the Berdaguer & Péjus twosome sets itself up, by reappraising, not without irony, the challenges of a “pathology” of bio-power over bodies and consciousnesses, based on an uninhibited form of interference between history, experience of reality, and (science-)fiction. In regularly seeking out the collaboration of scientists, from particle physics to linguistics, Berdaguer & Péjus play to the hilt the game of an experimental art, 9 whose hypotheses rub shoulders with certain historical references, at the crossroads of social reformism and a modernism whose repertory of forms refers first of all to a series of empirical procedures and protocols to do with the split between project (concept) and reality (behaviour). [Pascal Rousseau, excerpts]
Christophe Berdaguer was born in 1968 and Marie Péjus was born in 1969. They live and work in Marseille and Paris.
This book brings together a body of work produced over ther last fifteen years. It is designed around two themes: a circuit, round the Insula show presented by Berdaguer & Péjus at the Institut d’art contemporain de Villeurbanne in spring 2012, and ghosts, those of architectural magazines such as Aujourd’hui : Art & Architectur.
Authors: Sébastien Pluot, Jean-Pierre Rehm, Pascal Rousseau
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Technical details: 24 x 32 cm, 144 pages, broché
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Languages: French, English.
Published on September 2012.
Isbn 978-2-35864-035-0.
Public price: 34 €.
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