As Michel Foucault put it in the pages devoted to "the prose of the world" in The Order of Things: "And here, no path has been determined in advance, no distance laid down, no links prescribed. Sympathy plays through the depths of the universe in a free state".

Aurélien Froment has been invited by the Departmental Museum of Contemporary Art of Rochechouart to develop an exhibition that articulates recent productions (Le yoga par l'image, Un paysage de dominos, and also Fourdrinier Machine Interlude) with older works (Théâtre de poche, De L'île à hélice à Ellis Island…), a body of work constituted during the last ten years or so. Occupying five spaces, the proximity of the works allows the visitor to build resemblances and create a hypothesis for the common moves entailed. Cards can be turned on the table, and in the museum you can always retrace your steps.

A corridor is covered in motifs inspired by the kindergarten popular success of Friedrich Fröbel (1782-1852) who founded an education based on playing; this then leads into each exhibition room. In each one, the threads followed by the artist come together, fray and interweave: the boat, which was initially noticed at the top of a mountain in Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo; the projection, a recurrent device in Froment's research; the blocks, combining disparate elements, from Fröbel's games to a floor composition; the project of the town of Arcosanti built by Paolo Soleri since the 1970s which Froment regularly comes back to; the resources, from the iconographic lexicon of Archipelago or the blank pages of the diary 2030.

While the museum would usually impose a rational vision on the work, unraveling it in its continuity by isolated chapters in each space, Aurélien Froment proposes the exact opposite. His discontinuous proposal is structured by similitudes.

Aurélien Froment was born in 1976 in Angers, he lives and works in Dublin. He is represented by the following galleries: Marcelle Alix (Paris) and Motive (Amsterdam).

This exhibition benefits from the support of the Ministry of Culture - Regional Cultural Affairs Directorate of Limousin