To inaugurate its 2002-2003 program, Galerie B-312 welcomes Montreal artist Bertrand R. Dérive Pitt’s artwork, Dérive, in its main room. The work punctuates the artist's visit, in 2000, to the studios of the Christoph-Merian Foundation in Basel. -This installation reconstitutes for us a highly subjective aesthetic experience that he relates in the following terms: "[...] on the edge of these summits of the world, on that day, at that precise moment, under that light and from my point of view, heaven and earth merged, became reversible. »  -It would be too quick to conclude that the artist is thus returning to landscape painting, or that he is exploring the technical opportunities offered by multimedia technology to give the painting what the pictorial means denied him. It is not of a landscape that Bertrand R. Pitt wished to testify, but of an experience. Here again, it would be presumptuous to conclude that the artist wishes to plunge us into an experience similar, if not identical, to the inaugural experience he lived before the Swiss landscape. There is only one thing that the artist can testify to without being mistaken or deceiving us, and that is the testimony of the existence of a scene other than that of worldly reality. Double scenes between which the work imposes itself as a threshold that has nothing of the mirror beyond which one would find Lewis Carroll's fantastical imagination. A threshold that has nothing to do either with the liquefied mirror that Jean Cocteau made Jean Marais cross in Orpheus. In Dérive, you will see, through a game of references and shimmers, the echo of the pulsations of the invisible.

—Translated from a text by Jean-Émile Verdier