Ten years after their first duo exhibition, Open for new challenges, artists Geoffrey de Beer and Karina Beumer are resuming their collaboration and challenging each other once again.

This unique concept involves them challenging each other during both physical and mental road trips. As a result, a unique symbiosis emerges between the two artists, where their works complement and strengthen each other, while also being used in relation to one another. The adventure is captured in a video, where the artworks in the exhibition serve as props that frame the absurd experiences.

In this tourist maze, we travel around the mountain La Roche. Geoffrey and Karina are the tour guides on this trip (Geoffrey in front of the camera, Karina behind it). They take us to the cave of Jeanne le Blanc, where a myth took place that the local residents1 only partially remember. Geoffrey and Karina decide to complete the myth and follow Jeanne in an ever-widening circle. They are accompanied by Geoffrey's smartwatch, which turns out to be the narrator of the video. However, together with our two guides, it gets lost while going counterclockwise. In a desperate attempt to regain control of their route and to not lose their heads2 Geoffrey and Karina run around in circles.

Notes

1 The video uses footage from the documentary La roche morey by Lionel Georges from 1999.
2 The immortals are a detail from the tableau Besançon à vol d'oiseau en 1615 by Bruley Samson. Collection: Le Musée du Temps in Besançon, FR.