Aurélien Froment. The journey of all journeys
Where do texts take us? What are the infinite geographies that are born on the pages of a book? The French artist Aurélien Froment asked the actress Karine Lazard to read and in so doing recreate scenes taken from different movies.
Where do texts take us? What are the infinite geographies that are born on the pages of a book? The French artist Aurélien Froment asked the actress Karine Lazard to read and in so doing recreate scenes taken from different movies. Standing in front of a plain white background and with a single object in her hands (a book), the actress re-enacts the attitudes and gestures that Brigitte Bardot, Julianne Moore and Oskar Werner, among others, adopted in films by Jean-Luc Godard, Stephen Daldry or François Truffaut. Echoing a recurring theme in the history of painting, cinema has also asked actors and actresses to sit with a book in their hands to record the private and magical act of reading. Turned into a performance by Froment, L’Adaptation manifeste (The Genuine Adaptation) transforms reading’s ‘journey of all journeys’ into a manifestly exterior gesture.
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