His exhibitions were anti-lifestyle lifestyles. They asked: Why do we need entertainment to fill every silent moment? One room featured a single, comfortable armchair facing a blank wall. The "entertainment" was the sound of a radiator hissing. You were supposed to wait. For twenty minutes. Most people cried.
The true provocation, however, was the live element. Beaulieu himself sat on a simple wooden chair just outside the cube, stripped to the waist, his skin glistening under the lamps. He held a brass rod connected to the pipe system. When a visitor stood directly before the glass, their own thermal signature triggered a valve that released a thin, warm mist from hidden nozzles — not onto the visitor, but onto Beaulieu. The more intensely the visitor stared, the more he was bathed in the collected warmth of the crowd. etranges exhibitions 2002 benjamin beaulieu hot
Marie-Eve Beaulieu - Galerie Simon Blais - Art Gallery in Montreal. Galerie Simon Blais Archive – New Exhibitions His exhibitions were anti-lifestyle lifestyles