Il était une fois et une fois il n'était pas
Aurélien Froment
25.05.2023 - 22.07.2023, opening 25.05.2023
Louis et les langues, 2023
HD video projection
16 min
ed 5 + 1
Psittacism, 2018
framed archival pigment print
37,5 x 30 cm
39,5 x 32 cm (framed)
ed 3 + 1
Prolepsis, 2018
framed archival pigment print
37,5 x 30 cm
39,5 x 32 cm (framed)
ed 3 + 1
Innuendo, 2018
framed archival pigment print
37,5 x 30 cm
39,5 x 32 cm (framed)
ed 3 + 1
Cacemphaton , 2018
framed archival pigment print
37,5 x 30 cm
39,5 x 32 cm (framed)
ed 3 + 1
Acyron, 2018
framed archival pigment print
37,5 x 30 cm
39,5 x 32 cm (framed)
ed 3 + 1
Tremblement, 2023
16mm filmstrip, list of words
variable dimensions
unique
Il était une fois et une fois il n'était pas, 2017/2023
HD video projection
11 min 24 sec
ed 5 + 1
"Andrei, these aren’t films you’re making...
Conversation with my father, after the premiere of Mirror"
Andreï Tarkovski, Sculpting in Time, University of Texas Press, 1987
Aurélien Froment has always questioned what differentiates and what connects the art of cinema and other art forms. His gesture, whether it be associated with photography or the installation of physical objects in the exhibition space, is driven by emotion. And it is through the senses, which become the very purpose of the works, that our relationship to language is questioned. Perhaps we are seeking, through new forms, to capture the invisible streams that shape our lives. A new form calls for a new ceremony, or to put it another way, the words that remain within us need rituals — forms capable of bringing them back to life. If a snippet of what we are looking for were given to us at the sight of one or a body of work, it would not be erased or forgotten. The artists’ rituals help us to do this. If we don’t know how to celebrate, we should let the artists show us how accessible the ritual (here, a language of silence and sound) is and how we are still capable of experiencing it.