Accompanied by her roommate Amanda, Rachel follows Carole to what she believes is a secret meeting, only to discover that Carole is actually attending a harmless "voyeur's party" where people indulge their fantasies. Key Details Benjamin Beaulieu and Laurent Lévy. Release Date: September 8, 2002. Main Cast: Angela Tiger as Rachel. Maud Kennedy Céline Guyot and Martin Guyot. Viewer Reception: On platforms like , it holds a modest user rating (roughly
And perhaps that was the whole point.
At the time, Étranges Exhibitions was shown at small media arts festivals (EMAFF in Barcelona, FILE São Paulo) and on a now-defunct web portal called Artefact 2002 . Critics were divided: some called it “pretentious net-art navel-gazing,” while others hailed it as a precursor to the post-internet uncanny later seen in artists like Jon Rafman or Petra Cortright. etranges exhibitions 2002 benjamin beaulieu
"Cinema is the art of lying 24 times a second," Beaulieu remarked, adjusting a spotlight. "My work here is to lie only once, but to make that lie last forever. At Étranges Exhibitions, we are celebrating the 'strange.' I believe the strangest thing is not a monster, but the moment you realize the world around you is not what you thought it was. I try to capture that split second of doubt."
| Title (Year) | Notable For/Director | | :--- | :--- | | | Genre-standard erotic themes. | | Elle ou lui (2000) | A co-directed telefilm. | | Troublantes visions (2001) | A telefilm in the same genre. | | Drôles de jeux (2001) | A telefilm centered on "erotic games". | | La dernière fille (2002) | A telefilm from the same year as "Étranges exhibitions". | Accompanied by her roommate Amanda, Rachel follows Carole
Étranges Exhibitions received almost no mainstream press. The only major mention was a half-paragraph in Libération ’s “Sortir” section, which called it “pretentious but admirably moist.” However, in artist-run forums and early art blogs (now lost to GeoCities shutdowns), the show became a legend.
The premise was deceptively simple: Beaulieu staged a set of miniature, nomadic displays in non-gallery spaces across Montreal. Think oddities in laundromats, taxidermy mice arranged in a phone booth, or handwritten labels taped to broken street furniture. The “exhibitions” were never announced in advance. You stumbled upon them—or you didn’t. Main Cast: Angela Tiger as Rachel
Today, searching for yields scattered results: a low-resolution photo of the Montreal storefront (unconfirmed), a speculative Wikipedia page that was deleted for lack of notability, and dozens of forum threads where users argue whether Beaulieu was a genius, a charlatan, or a collective hallucination.
The story follows , a woman who finds herself deeply suspicious of her secretary, Carole . Convinced that Carole is engaged in illicit activities with business competitors, Rachel and her roommate Amanda decide to follow her to a secret meeting. Instead of corporate espionage, they discover Carole attending a high-society voyeur's party, leading the characters into a series of unexpected encounters and explorations of desire. Production & Cast
Étranges Exhibitions (2002) is a mood, not a masterpiece in the traditional sense—a digital ghost of early 2000s experimental art, eerie and deliberately broken, that asked visitors to question what a “strange exhibition” even means when the walls are made of code.