Bugada & Cargnel

Asylum
2002
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A kind of magic pervades the small but unforgettable "Asylum", in which the artist projects miniature video footage of men adrift on a raft into a water-filled goldfish bowl set on a pile of rocks and sand. The reference is Gericault's Raft of the Medusa, with its definitive subtext on the Romantic dichotomy of genius and madness.

Back To You
2003
video projection, wood, glass, iron
161.6 x 62.5 centimeters
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In this piece, the sweet image of a bird contrasts with the imprisoning cage that surrounds it.

I Like To Get My Loving When I Got It On My Mind
2003
180.2 x 168 centimeters
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In 'I Like to Get My Loving When I got It on My Mind', the image of a peacock is projected on a dividing screen. From the formal similarity of use of the screen and the peacock's tail, a conceptual link is added in the game of undressing and revealing, hiding in order to be more suggestive, suggesting and showing to more effectively seduce, seducing to more effectively deceive.

Skin Flick
2009
wood, LCD screen, mini-mac, aluminium
154 x 76 centimeters
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Mat COLLISHAW uses illusion and desire to shed light on the perverse superficiality of images. In Skin Flick unidentifiable images unfold on a Victorian table, it is only by looking at them through a metal cylinder set in the centre of the table that the amorphous shapes in movement can be identified as being a bullfighting scene.

The Old Account
2003
video projection, wood, glass, brass
217 x 45.2 centimeters
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A scene from the film “Gone with the Wind” is projected on the clock dial of ‘Grandfather Clock' from the interior. We can see Big Ben from the window of the room where this scene is taking place. A very mild sound produced by the weak voice of a little girl, repeating “Daddy, daddy” like in a nightmare, and the unceasing tick-tock sound of the clock emphasizes the ambiguity and the oppressive character of the scene. The comforting image of the family clock contrasts with the ambivalency of the situation.

When He Comes
2003
video projection, wood, glass, brass, horn
165 x 39 centimeters
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Veritable memento mori , "When He Comes" gives the impression of a pedestal to life: a horn, placed on a table, supports a ball, inside of which the image of a blossoming flower is projected.