ABOUT

Serge Marcel Martinot particularly likes to observe people going about their everyday business, in the streets, on fairgrounds in parks or in museums. He fits these anonymous characters, his contemporaries, into his three-part pat-terns of movement like extras, just as he does barges, roller coasters and wind-blown trash-bags, motifs occasionally found in the surrealistic feature films of the Twenties. We see people taking strolls, anglers fishing in rivers, people riding escalators, waiters, day trippers, bungee jumpers, skateboarders, window dressers or museum visitors. We see them in threefold separation, the images severed from one another, but moving in unison from real life into surrealism.