This publication presents the Drive End series of photographs, which brings together elements from Western culture, road movies and disaster films. The artist is interested in the presence of cinema in contemporary art and the relationship between the still image and the moving image. His artistic practice is rooted in a way of thinking about the cinematographic image, in which photography partly reproduces the conditions of film representation. Digital manipulation constructs places that fuse ruined symbols: an abandoned drive-in movie theater, a car graveyard and a venerable cowboy. The result is a kind of imaginary museum of the end of cinema, the car and the dreams that accompany them. The hero is depicted in front of a giant screen, in a world similar to our own, marked by the test of time and death. The work participates in a rewriting of the myths and grand narratives of America, where the frontier, the New World and the utopia of progress are never far away.
Drive End
Martin Beauregard
Martin Beauregard was born in Ville-Marie, Canada, in 1978. He currently lives and works in Montreal. He received the Diplôme national supérieur d'expression plastique from the École des Beaux-arts de Bordeaux in France. He is currently pursuing doctoral studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal (Montreal, Canada), in the Études et pratiques des arts program, and at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris, France), in the Arts plastiques et sciences de l'art program. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, including at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal, Canada), Location One (New York, USA), Capc Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux (Bordeaux, France) and Asahi Art Square (Tokyo, Japan).
