Marcel Dzama will screen and explain the making of his film – Une Danse des Bouffons or A Jester’s Dance – a fictionalised account of the ill-fated, romantic affair between world-famous French-American artist Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins. Described as a Dadaist love story, the film is executed in the artist’s signature style with recurring themes of good versus evil, death and rebirth, and tensions between reality and fiction, while at the same time drawing on diverse range of art-historical references.

Marcel Dzama was born in Winnipeg, Canada, where he received his BFA from the University of Manitoba. Dzama’s first major museum exhibition, Marcel Dzama: The Lotus Eaters, took place in 2005 at Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, which traveled to Le Magasin – Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France. Other notable solo exhibitions include those organised by Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Mexico and Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain.