Have you ever considered going on a trip with no plans or end destination in mind? Patrick Beaulieu and Alexis Pernet did and they are sharing a series of artworks from their voyage based on intuition, encounters, disorientation and surrender. 

The School of Art at the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences welcomes Beaulieu and Pernet's work "EL PERDIDO" to the Sculpture Studio Gallery currently on exhibition and open to the public.

The talents of Beaulieu and Pernet will be on display at the Sculpture Studio Gallery located at 744 S. Hill Ave., Aug. 16-31. The opening reception is from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Aug. 16 and is free and open to the public.

During the summer of 2017 and 2018, Patrick Beaulieu realized the performative excursion "EL PERDIDO." Travelling with geographer Alexis Pernet on board a 1977 Dodge camper van, they set off on a journey in search of a non-existent place called "The Forgotten Road."

They described the journey as being continuously and deliberately lost. Their trajectory was entirely dictated by the locals met on the road who guided them to nowhere. The journey began in Lost City, Oklahoma during a total solar eclipse and ended 3,000 miles away in a Mexico City neighborhood.

The journey led to a series of artworks including installations, video, photographs, geopoetic maps and writings called "EL PERDIDO."

Beaulieu is a multidisciplinary artist. He describes his projects as intrinsically linked to ideas of mobility, forming a relationship to various territories by empirically addressing the question of geographical and social boundaries, and the boundary between reality and fiction. 

Pernet is a geographer and landscape artist. He received degrees from the École des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux (1996), the École nationale supérieure du paysage de Versailles (2000), and holds a PhD in Geography from the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2011). He currently is a lecturer at the École du paysage de Versailles, is a member of his research lab (Larep), and is on the editorial committee of the magazine Les Carnets du paysage, co-edited by Actes Sud and ENSPV.