Benjamin Bardou
Memories of An Exhibition
vidéo volumétrique / 4 h 10

ai

Video projection

What remains in our minds of artworks when they elude our gaze? Traces linger, revealed through recollection: sequences of patches that link together to form diaphanous images—in other words, memories. In this act akin to imagination, the goal is to bring past forms back to life by actualizing them in our present.

Memories of an Exhibition was born from the desire to paint not the artworks themselves, but rather their memories. Here, artificial imagination is not opposed to organic memory; instead, it acts as a machine for restoring the memory of an aesthetic experience. It becomes a universal canvas where painters coexist—not as figures of the past, but as possibilities of what could have been and what might yet come to pass.

In this imaginary space, color serves as a trigger for a reminiscence of works seen by our contemporaries and potentially dreamed of by the painters themselves. Memories of an Exhibition offers a wandering through the memories of canvases by six illustrious painters: Pierre Bonnard, Wassily Kandinsky, Gustav Klimt, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, and Vincent Van Gogh.

EXHIBITIONS

  • 2025 Artcrush Gallery (Brussels, Belgium)
  • 2025 Sunderland (Sunderland, UK)
  • 2024 Galerie A+E (Paris, France) - Solo exhibition
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