Éric Baudelaire

Éric Baudelaire graduated from Brown University with a degree in political science, and while conducting research at the Harvard Kennedy School, a research trip to three unrecognized states in the Caucasus shifted his practice from social science to the visual arts. In the course of further journeys to Abkhazia, a de facto state that seceded from Georgia after the breakup of the Soviet Union, Baudelaire developed his practice as a photographer, and subsequently as a filmmaker. A number of his films have been developed through collaborative correspondence with people in exile, at risk of deportation, or living in unrecognised states, such as The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years without Images (2011); The Ugly One (2013) and Letters to Max (2014). His work has circulated widely at film festivals, including Locarno, Toronto, New York, FID Marseille and Rotterdam. When shown within exhibitions, Baudelaire’s films are part of broad installations that include works on paper, performance, publications and public programmes. In 2019, he won the Prix Marcel Duchamp.