La Criée presents Le voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon), an exhibition by internationally acclaimed Canadian artist Marcel Dzama (b.1974, Winnipeg, Canada), who is rarely shown in France. Paying tribute to Georges Méliès and early cinema, the exhibition brings together, for the first time in Europe, a wide selection of Dzama's films alongside drawings, storyboards, sculptures, models, and objects.
Trained in Winnipeg and influenced early on by alternative popular cultures, Dzama has developed a prolific practice since the late 1990s in which drawing and film play a central role. His work draws inspiration from early cinema, surrealism, modernism, pop culture, and underground music, creating a distinctive fantastical universe that blends humor, poetry, cruelty, and political undertones.
The exhibition features around fifteen films shown in an hour-long program including two major works presented in dedicated screening rooms: A Jester's Dance (2013) and To live on the Moon (for Lorca) (2023). Together, films and objects reveal Dzama's playful mastery of burlesque, fantasy, and visual storytelling.
