Bertille Bak : Faux et usage de faux | La Criée centre d'art contemporain

Born in France in 1982, Bertille Bak has been producing a distinctive body of work for over fifteen years, intertwining video, installation, drawing, and sculpture. Her creative process is rooted in co-creation, driven by a commitment to giving voice to overlooked, marginalized, or disregarded social groups.

The artist engages with modes of immersion, extended time, and fable as the foundations of her practice. Through these collaborations and the use of storytelling, she constructs a world where humor contends with a certain sense of the tragic.

Concerned with representing the domination of the working class in the era of globalization, her work seeks to develop artistic practices that foster a shared imaginary of resistance against human exploitation.

Building on a reflection initiated during two joint exhibitions—Le mouton est dans le salon (curated by the Master’s program in Exhibition Professions and Arts at Rennes 2 University, Galerie Art et Essai) and Dark-en-ciel (curated by Sophie Kaplan, La Criée Contemporary Art Center)—this book brings together contributions from authors across the fields of art, anthropology, political science, art history, philosophy, and exhibition curation.

Table of Contents

-- Baptiste Brun, Sophie Kaplan, Bak! We Gotta Take the Power Back! A Rapid but Slow Survey of Bertille Bak’s Work
-- Conversation between Bertille Bak and Laurent Jeanpierre, Dissection of a Prolo Token
-- Monique Jeudy-Ballini, The Improvised Lives of Bertille Bak
-- Portfolio
-- Christophe David, COUCOUROUCOUCOU PALOMAS. Metafable
-- Jean-Marc Chapoulie, B. B. Makes Films as If…
-- Videos and Related Works

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