Cadavres Exquis Vivants unfolds as an ongoing series of short video portraits. Initiated around 2007 and continuously developed since, the works take the form of condensed video collages in which historical and cultural figures appear as fragmented, unstable characters. 

The series draws on the surrealist method of the cadavre exquis, a collective practice based on chance and discontinuity. Translated into the digital realm, BitteBitteJaJa combine found footage with self produced material to construct dense visual compositions. These figures are placed in absurd, often dreamlike settings, where narrative coherence dissolves into associative, layered micro dramas. 

In this process, portraiture shifts into something fluid and ambivalent. Recognizable identities are deconstructed and reassembled, oscillating between caricature, fiction, and symbolic projection. Through their emphasis on instability and transformation, the works destabilize rigid conceptions of subjectivity, extending the strategies of modernist surrealism into the realm of contemporary moving image.