Curator: Benoît Lamy de La Chapelle 

The CAC - la synagogue de Delme is delighted to announce the exhibition Futurs intérieurs by Brice Dellsperger from July 5 to December 14, 2025. For the occasion, the artist will be showing his video Body Double 39 for the first time in France, in a never-before-seen installation. A set of five paintings will accompany the installation. 

Brice Dellsperger (born 1972 in Cannes, France, lives and works in Paris, where he has taught at ENSAD since 2004) has been working since 1995 on remakes of cult film sequences (Dressed to kill, Return of the Jedi, Saturday Night Fever, L'important c'est d'aimer, My Own Private Idaho, Twin Peaks...), which he assembles under the generic title of Body Double. Body Double is a series of numbered videos in which the filmmaker and visual artist re-enacts famous film scenes, dubbing shot by shot what is then presented as an original, but also word by word, as he re-uses the soundtrack of the original film, over which bodies, replacing the actors, wedge themselves. The doubling of the actor embodying all the characters, both male and female, implies cross-dressing and a questioning of gender, facticity and artifice, which the cinematic framework enables to be developed in a specific way: “The transvestites who populate my films are fantastic creatures, the kind I'd like to meet more often in everyday life. Cinema employs costume in all its forms, and is itself a transvestite of reality in its act of reproduction, in the illusion it generates. Cinema is an artifice, so it's the perfect receptacle for my experiments in cross-dressing and gender play. I see it as an extension of the realm of film, a doubling of fiction.” Brice Dellsperger's works are shown at numerous international film festivals and acquired by many private and public collections, such as his feature film Body Double X, now in the MoMA collection.^[1]

^[1]  Extract from www.lespressesdureel.com. Curator's text coming soon. 

This exhibition is produced in partnership with Passages center d'art contemporain in Troyes, as part of the French Ministry of Culture's Mieux Produire Mieux Diffuser program. The Passages art center presents the second part of this project with Brice Dellsperger, the exhibition Quitte ou double, from September 20 to December 13, 2025. Opening on Friday September 19 from 6pm.

A new monograph by Brice Dellsperger will be published in autumn 2025 by Mousse Publishing in co-edition with Passages, center for contemporary art in Troyes, the Musée Régional d'Art Contemporain Occitanie in Sérignan and in partnership with Galerie Air de Paris. 

The video Body Double 39 was produced by the Dortmunder Kunstverein in 2024 to coincide with Brice Dellsperger's exhibition Jalousies, and was supported by the Fondation des Artistes, the CNAP and Panavision France.