The 2002 edition of Étranges Exhibitions (which would later evolve into the modern L'Étrange Festival) was a pivotal year. The landscape of fantastic culture was shifting from the practical effects of the 80s and 90s into the digital age. Beaulieu’s work feels like a bridge—he uses modern compositional techniques but relies on the grit and grain of the physical world.
"I walked in at 3 PM. I walked out at 7 PM. I do not remember seeing any art. I remember smelling burnt sugar and hearing a child’s cough from behind a wall. There was no child. There was no wall. I think I loved it."
Étranges exhibitions is a 2002 French erotic television drama directed by Benjamin Beaulieu Laurent Lévy
