Patrick Bernatchez

Interview with the Quebec artist Patrick Bernatchez about Les temps inachevés, an exhibition that offers a voyage through two major groups of works: "Chrysalides" (2006-2013) and "Lost in Time" (2009-2014).

Bernatchez's multidisciplinary oeuvre mixes drawings, sculptures, sound installations, films and more. Both groups were developed over several years and neither has a clearly defined ending, since the artist has left openings that allow him to take them a step further at any time. Each new Patrick Bernatchez exhibition is thus an opportunity to take stock of his constantly evolving cycles, as much in terms of newly added productions as of the ways in which earlier works are presented. The artist does not view an exhibition as the conclusion or completion of the creative process surrounding a group of works but as an intermediary step, an initial presentation that allows the works in question to evolve.The artist himself is explaining the main topics of his work, divided in 6 parts:     0:05: FASHION PLAZA   1:39: UNFINISHED TIMES 2:39: BLACK WATCH   3:55: HENRI LABORIT “L’éloge de la fuite”, “La nouvelle grille””  5:30: NATURE  8:48: MUSIC (Timestamed video on vimeo.)