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One visitor, a textile worker named Gaspard Morel, later wrote in a blog post (now lost to Geocities archives): "I saw my father leaving when I was seven. I paid two euros to see my father leave. I turned the crank again. He left again. I did this nineteen times. I couldn't stop. That is the power of Beaulieu's strange exhibitions."
"Beaulieu is either a genius or a con man who accidentally summoned something. His artist statement said: ‘These exhibitions are étranges because they exhibit you.’ I felt naked. Not metaphorically. My coat was still on." etranges exhibitions 2002 benjamin beaulieu
Today, the original Flash-based work is nearly inaccessible—lost to browser deprecations and dead links. A partial reconstruction exists via the Rhizome ArtBase and emulated in the browser. Digital archivists have noted that Beaulieu deliberately corrupted parts of the code, so even emulated versions crash randomly at the “Salle des Miroirs Brisés” (Room of Broken Mirrors). One visitor, a textile worker named Gaspard Morel,
The content is structured as a retrospective article or festival catalog feature, capturing the atmosphere of the 2002 edition. He left again
A must-see installation for those who appreciate the texture of fear and the poetry of decay. Benjamin Beaulieu proves that sometimes, the most frightening images are the ones that do not move at all.
