Aurélien Froment. Double Tales

The work of Aurélien Froment (1976, France) navigates from one subject to another. He frequently highlights other artists, but always from his own, personal viewpoint. Verbal stories combine in Froment’s oeuvre with a visual vocabulary. Transformation and complementarity are threads running through the themes explored in his exhibition Double Tales at M – Museum Leuven.

What does it mean to create an image? How is an image constructed? How do images shape us? These are the questions Froment takes as his point of departure. He can use film to show architecture and photographs to present sculpture, while a new video is devoted to a tapestry. His perspective shifts constantly, offering the beholder several different standpoints from which to view the images and stories.

Double Tales curated by Eva Wittocx at M – Museum Leuven presents a comprehensive overview of Aurélien Froment’s work for the first time in Belgium. It includes recent installations, sculptures and photographic series, plus three new video works. Froment’s installations also engage in a dialogue with objects from M – Museum’s own collection and that of the Museum of Musical Instruments in Brussels.