PASSENGERS: Aurelien Froment

The French artist Aurélien Froment works on a diverse range of artworks, such as films, photographs, and books that address ideas of how narrative, whether documentary or fiction, can be constructed. In the film, Théâtre de Poche (2007), a magician weaves a cyclical tale by presenting a series of card tricks and images that are suspended in a black environment. Stills from popular films that include recognizable actors are presented as though taken from a stack of family snap shots. A wide variety of images, from ancient artifacts to patterns of bricks, float across the black background and invite the viewer to infer meaning in the spaces between images. The carefully constructed theatricality of this film is navigated with a precise use of sound that follows the movement of each image to gently lull the viewer into another world.

The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers: 2.12 Aurelien Froment