Tableau d'amour opens on a grey, desert-like landscape with an overlay of yellow grid lines. The final tableau displays a rich design of organic matter and reveals a module of labyrinthian body structures. Between those two sequences, a love story has unraveled.
This transition comprises nine scenes leading through nine separate incarnations which are also nine erotic poses or sentimental variations. Nine loves, one single love.
A man and a woman, defined with body frames retrieved from the corpus of Western painting, are shown in constant mutation, interactive and otherwise, reminiscent of two fish mating above a landscape. Suddenly, their entities strike out some erotic pose.
This infrastructure includes a viewing device which is concretized by the presence of a viewfinder and eyes peering through various landscape ports. The viewing device forces a dual development. On one hand, the lovers are frozen cut-outs which will be used as modules for future labyrinthian body structures. On the other hand, both characters are transformed into objects with indelible earth connotations which will be integrated to the color spotted final tableau.


Technical Background

HW: Hewlett-Packard
SW: Synthetic Video 4

Bériou? He was a mountain guy who used to live in a lost valley in the Alps. He spent part of his life with his friends digging for gold in a mine. One day he realised that the seam he was working on was just a mixture of copper and iron - “fools' gold ”. So, crafty as he was, he sold the mine to someone from the fatlands. But, careful as he is, he keeps on digging himself. Ever since then Beriou has been digging at the labyrinths of images and building rockpiles in order to find himself