Martin Berteloodt

Berteloodt is a French multimedia artist based in Tokyo. He is known for his dark and surreal style, which explores themes of sexuality and trauma. His works intersect beauty and filth, grotesqueness and fascination, and often evoke a sense of chaos, irrationality and anxiety. Drawing on his rich cultural experience and curiosity about human psychology, he creates fantastical and uncomfortable otherworldly worlds through a variety of media. His works, which he has collaborated with artists such as Courtney Love and Rosalia and many production companies, have been featured at the Cannes Film Festival and other events. His third solo exhibition in Tokyo, "Morphosis" (2023), was released as a provocative sequel to his previous work "Sexual Microbes" (2022).

Berteloodt's latest collection marks an important milestone in his exploration of the tangible and the immaterial. It features more material and animatronic mediums and Freudian research, aiming to give substance to thought and expand it into something tangible. The interweaving of human desire and tangible expression is both disturbing and seductive, evoking raw sensations and reflection in the viewer.

Major exhibitions to date include "MORPHOSIS" (2023 CONTRAST Gallery), "BROUILLON" (2022 En tanglement Art Gallery), and "EXHALAISON" (2022 HAKT&co Gallery).

* Photo courtesy of Mitsuru Nishimura