[4] In 2000, a research trip to three unrecognized states in the Caucasus with Dr. Dov Lynch[5] of King's College London marked Baudelaire's shift from social science to the visual arts field.
[17] The film is based on a correspondence with former Abkhaz Foreign Minister Maxim Gvinjia, to whom Baudelaire sent a series of letters from Paris to test whether the French postal system would deliver mail to a state it doesn't recognize.
[18][19] In 2015, Baudelaire organised the exhibition The Secession Sessions, which included Letters to Max, as well as a performance with Maxim Gvinjia titled The Abkhaz Anembassy, and a series of talks, lectures and workshops about the concepts of stateless statehood, nationalism and secessionism.
[20] The exhibition began at Bétonsalon, Paris, and travelled to Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, Berkeley Art Museum / Kadist San Francisco and Sharjah Biennial 12 where it won the prize.
[21][22][23] Baudelaire's fourth feature film, Also Known As Jihadi, 2017, retraces the itinerary of a young Frenchman who flew to Egypt in 2012, and eventually joined the ranks of the Al Nusra Front in Syria.
[27] In 2019, Éric Baudelaire presents Tu peux prendre ton temps [You can take your time] at the Centre Pompidou, as part of the exhibition of artists nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize.