Bertrand R. Pitt
Bertrand R. Pitt Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Why Does My Body Hurt When I Drink?
Artist in Residence Artist in Residence
Bertrand R. Pitt lives and works in Montreal. His video works have been presented in nearly a dozen solo exhibitions and various events in Quebec, Canada, France and Switzerland.
exploration of unexpected connections between sounds and images and putting them in space are at the heart of his practice that tends to question our habits of perception. With his works Drift, Turmoil, and Ghosts its latest interactive installation Horizons uncertain where the pulsations of the skyline are triggered by the action of participants, the artist questions the relationships that are sensitive and cognitive weave between body and landscape. He is currently preparing a new series of paintings entitled interactive video Travellings
to be presented to the video in Quebec City in November and at SESC Pinheiros Sao Paulo (Brazil) in April 2011. It will also present a new version of its installation Horizons uncertain at Gallery 44 in Toronto in March 2011.
His work has been supported on several occasions by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts and is part of the collection of National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec. He holds a Master of Fine Arts from UQAM, it is also a professor in the Department of Visual Arts College Lionel-Groulx.
For more information, visit: www.bertrandrpitt.net *************
Bertrand R. Pitt
Bertrand R. Pitt lives and works in Montreal. His videographic works have been featured in nearly fifteen solo exhibitions and at various events in Quebec, Canada, France and Switzerland.
Through the exploration and spatial configuration of unexpected relationships between sounds and images, his work engages in a fundamental questioning of our perceptual habits. In works such as Drift, Tumults, Afterglow,
and his most recent interactive installation, Uncertain Horizons, in which the throbbing of the horizon is triggered by the participating spectators, the artist explores cognitive and sensual connections between body and landscape. He is now working on a new series of interactive-video pictures entitled Travellings, to be shown at La Bande Vidéo in Quebec City in November and at SESC Pinheiros in São Paulo (Brazil) in April 2011. A new version of the Uncertain Horizons installation will be presented at Gallery 44 in Toronto in March 2011.
His work has received the support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts and is included in the collection of the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec. He completed a Master’s degree in visual arts at the UQÀM and currently teaches in the visual arts department of the Collège Lionel-Groulx.
For more information, please visit: www.bertrandrpitt.net
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