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Distracted Blueberry

Barry Doupé

2019 04:33:00 CanadaFrenchColorStereo16:9HD video

Description

Distracted Blueberry follows a performance art band through a series of poetic encounters. Masculine tropes are undone to form a relationship between male sexuality and the human death drive. The body, violence and humour are positioned in the larger context of nothingness and somethingness, bridging a tension between externalized anxieties and the terrors of nature. Evocative of inner emotional states, strange landscapes exist as reflections of our shared dreams and nightmares.

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About Barry Doupé

Barry Doupé is a Vancouver based artist primarily working with computer animation, digital painting and sculpture. His work uses imagery and language derived from the subconscious; developed through writing exercises and automatic drawing. Doupé’s films are often characterized by fragmented and porous narrative structures, richly textured characters and surreal, poetic situations.

His films have been screened throughout Canada and Internationally including the Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver), Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago), International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands), e-flux screening room (New York), Swallow Gallery (Lithuania), DOK Leipzig (Germany), Hors Pistes (Centre Pompidou, Paris) and Deluge Contemporary (Victoria). In 2024, he was selected for the prestigious Sobey Art Award longlist.

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Photo credit: Dennis Ha