about Bertrand Peret (France/Vietnam): I was born in France in 1971 and I have been living in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam since 2005.
career highlights: If I look back on the last fifteen years, I would first highlight the cycle of exhibitions I organized in my apartment between 1996 and 1997. During those two years, almost every month I was inviting artists and djs to work and perform for three days straight, 24/24 hours each day.
For me, that was the starting point of the main ideas I have continued to develop with Sandrine Llouquet through all the projects we have managed together under the name of Wonderful since 2000. Everything we have done since then deals with those concepts of ephemeral, global and social forms.
which creative people, places and things on your radar right now?
people: For the last couple of years, the most creative person I've been influenced by is the tennis player, Rafael Nadal. His game has something so impressive, so exciting and so powerful about it; Nadal has an extreme way of practicing his art. That’s exactly the sort of fresh energy I would love to be able to give to my own work, to my painting in particular.
places: Maybe because of where I am living now, in Vietnam (and quite far from any main active art scene and art life), I usually spend a minimum of one hour a day checking news on a variety of blogs with a particular focus on contemporary art. However, I think the reason is not only due to our location, i think it's also something to do with how much people use the web now. I also listen to French radio a lot to keep informed, read web papers and magazines, sometimes watch TV online and so on - that is definitely how i spend most of my time online, after considering my home life and life in my studio...
things: The gallery I'm working with, The Bui Gallery, is soon going to open two art spaces in Singapore. I'm planning to have one show there at the end of October. As I haven't seriously shown my work for a long time, this is very important to me, all the more so at this moment in my life. I have been painting and working hard for more than one year now preparing for that show... so... rendezvous end of October in Singapore...!
what's your favourite daydream? To be able to be full time artist for the rest of my life, living and working near the ocean.
what was the last rule you broke? I did not stop driving while it was red.
if you could ask a question of someone you respect, who and what would you ask?
Mozart: "What was in your mind while you were writing your Requiem?"
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