Brice Dellsperger
Artist from Cannes, explores gender and identity through film and painting, recreating sequences from cult films and questioning fiction, artifice and representation
Brice Dellsperger, 1972, Cannes Lives and works in Paris
Since 1995, Brice Dellsperger has been working on remakes of sequences from cult films, which he brings together under the generic title Body Double. The doubling of the actor or actress, who plays all the characters, both female and male, involves cross-dressing and an exploration of gender, originality and artifice.
“The cross-dressed characters that populate my films are fantastic creatures, the kind I would like to encounter more often in everyday life. Cinema uses costume in all its forms and is itself a form of cross-dressing of reality through its act of reproduction and the illusion it generates. Cinema is an artifice, and therefore the perfect receptacle for my experiments with cross-dressing and the play of genders. I see it as an extension of the realm of film, a doubling of fiction."
He has participated in numerous exhibitions, including: La Synagogue de Delme (2025), Passerelles (2025), Dortmunder Kunstverein (2024); Centre Pompidou (2023), La galerie Centre d’art, Noisy-le-Sec (2022); Palais de Tokyo (2017); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2017); Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris (2017); MACBA (2016); Maison des Arts, Malakoff (2016); Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours (2015); MAC VAL (2015); Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (2014); CAPC, Bordeaux (2012); Kunstverein, Düsseldorf (2009); MAMAC, Nice (2008); Le Magasin, Grenoble (2006); Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg (2003).
