Maxime Lamarche's work contains frequent references to the cinema, but he is just as interested in content as in the effects that create illusions. His sculptures and installations take their inspiration from a reality which they rechannel fictionally for critical purposes. Maxime Lamarche constructs and deconstructs vehicles–cars (Midnightswim), boats (The Calm after the Storm) or a blend of the two (Soft Serve Boat)–which he often presents out of context and as wrecks. His displays of these conveyances/ sculptures give rise to narratives of wittily rigged fiascos. In the sculpture Problem Is It's Got Wings, But No Propellers a motorcycle engine from the film Top Gun generates its own lighting. Maxime Lamarche also proposes more architectural structures, among them a sauna (Sauna-Malibu), a cabin (Let's Walk on the Roofs) and a Bivouac. These site-specific installations are responses to their exhibition venues and generate other narratives by interrogating spaces that are simultaneously real and symbolic.

For Rendez-Vous 15 exhibition, Maxime Lamarche is presenting a sculpture: a sailing boat whose hull has been cut up then reassembled with its components wedged apart. The process triggers a displacement: the leisure craft seems to be trying to morph into a traditional Asian junk. In the space it bends, finding a precarious balance on its keel and leaving its abandoned, ruinous inner cabin visible through the hull. In this work Maxime Lamarche pursues his sculptural explorations by creating a new disaster scenario