Bertrand Flanet
BPA at Gropius Studios
Personal Experience is a prototype concept developed during Flanet’s stay at the Gropius Bau. It consists of a physical card game in which two players challenge each other in deadly battles using opposing surveillance devices. Drone, CCTV camera, smartphone, and other devices such as a Google Street View car or a telecommunication satellite, slaughter one another in absurd fights for surveillance supremacy.
The rules of the game echo those of popular card games such as Magic: the gathering or Pokemon TGC. Partly abstract, these rules can be interpreted according to the player’s understanding. The cards refer to events during which underdogs took revenge over large data collecting companies. They are enhanced with Augmented Reality animations that depict the destruction of surveillance devices by invisible forces.
Bertrand Flanet, Untitled (landscapes), 2020, installation view, BPA at Gropius Studios
Photo: Eric Bell
Bio
Bertrand Flanet mainly produces 3D animation videos in which he fictionalises and reflects on latent forms of alienation in our societies. He obtained a master’s degree in curating at the Université Marc Bloch in Strasbourg, FR before graduating from Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main. Flanet’s work was shown at the group shows And this is us (2019), Frankfurter Kunstverein and Some hollow crowns (2019), Eigen&Art Lab, Berlin. In 2021, he will participate in the 65th Salon de Montrouge.
