Théâtre de Poche

2008 - Film & Video (Film & Video)

12,27 min

Aurélien Froment


The Théâtre de poche video is inspired by Arthur Lloyd / “Human Card Index”, a magician who was famous for being able to take out of his pockets any image requested by his spectators. His coat hid over 15 000 different prints. In Aurélien Froment’s work, a magician presents images by making them appear, disappear or move in space. The performance is accompanied by a rather rudimentary sounding music that highlights the artifice of the magician’s tricks and places the whole in a comedic register. He also manipulates the images himself and creates associations which seem to spell out a meaning. It can also appear as a metaphor for artistic creation, ideas that coincide, hesitations and experiments that constitute a practice. Inevitably one also ends up making connections between art and magic, the artist and the magician, artistic technique with that of illusion. In this work, Aurélien Froment questions modes of representation pursued in the publication Théâtre de poche (volume 1) in which he interviews different people (an architect, someone working in advertising and a creator of puzzles) who manipulate images daily in their jobs.


Aurélien Froment was born in Angers, France in 1976. He lives and works in Paris and Dublin.


Colors:



Other related works, blended automatically  
» see more

dbqp
© » KADIST

Aurélien Froment

2008

dbqp is a photographic series in which the artist handles an enlargement of the plate with three cutout windows which was used for L’Archipel (The Archipelago) in collaboration with Pierre Leguillon...

Related works sharing similar palette  
» see more

Unindebted Life
© » KADIST

Sylbee Kim

2021

Sylbee Kim’s Unindebted Life is a single-channel video, commissioned and premiered at the 13th Gwangju Biennale (2021)...

La semeuse d’étoiles
© » KADIST

Papa Ibra Tall

During the years of President Senghor, Papa Ibra Tall was influential in the cultural dimension of Senegalese politics, participating in the implementation of the Dakar School, a movement of artistic renewal born at the dawn of the country’s independence between 1960 and 1974 and which was encouraged by President Senghor...

Sydnie Jimenez’s Striking Ceramic Sculptures Celebrate Individual Expression and Diverse Communities
© » COLOSSAL

In museums or galleries, artist Sydnie Jimenez never saw figurative sculpture that looked like her or that felt relatable...

Studies of Chinese New Villages II
© » KADIST

Gan Chin Lee

2019

In Studies of Chinese New Villages II Gan Chin Lee’s realism appears in the format of a fieldwork notebook; capturing present-day surroundings while unpacking their historical memory...

Other works by: » Aurélien Froment  
» see more

dbqp
© » KADIST

Aurélien Froment

2008

dbqp is a photographic series in which the artist handles an enlargement of the plate with three cutout windows which was used for L’Archipel (The Archipelago) in collaboration with Pierre Leguillon...

Related artist(s) to: Aurélien Froment » Abigail Deville, » Agnieszka Polska, » Amalia Pica, » Andre Komatsu, » Basim Magdy, » Czech Republic, » Emily Roysdon, » Eva Kotatkova, » Joao Maria Gusmao, » Marwa Arsanios  
» see more

Memorial for intersection #2
© » KADIST

Amalia Pica

2013

Memorial for intersections #2 (2013) is a minimalist, black metallic structure that contains the brightly colored translucent circles, triangles, rectangles, and squares that originally were presented in Pica’s performance work A ? B ? C (2013)...

La Loge Harlem
© » KADIST

Abigail DeVille

2017

The work La Loge Harlem focuses on the history of Harlem and its development over the last 200 years...

I heard stories
© » KADIST

Marwa Arsanios

2008

I’ve heard stories (2008) is one of Marwa Arsanios early works...

Carlton Hotel project
© » KADIST

Marwa Arsanios

2008

Carlton Hotel project is the second part of a research on the Carlton, an iconic building of modernist architecture from the 1960s in Beirut...

Related works found in the same semantic group  
» see more

Silencer #16 & #17
© » KADIST

Will Rogan

2010

MUM , the acronym used to title a series of Rogan’s small interventions on found magazines, stands for “Magic Unity Might,” the name of a vintage trade magic publication...

Joachim Koester Part 2
© » KADIST

Joachim Koester talks about “Variations of Incomplete Open Cubes” (2011) and “Morning of the Magicians” (2005)....

Funerals under Neon Lights
© » KADIST

Tomoko Kikuchi

2014

The series Funerals under Neon Lights by Tomoko Kikuchi focuses on how transgender people’s ritual became a vital part of funerals in rural China...

Space race fakery, a CIA manual and a 10ft man: group show in Florida reveals the art of deception
© » THEARTNEWSPER

Space race fakery, a CIA manual and a 10ft man: group show in Florida reveals the art of deception Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 review Space race fakery, a CIA manual and a 10ft man: group show in Florida reveals the art of deception Boca Raton Museum of Art exhibition explores the evolution of illusion through a contemporary lens Torey Akers 8 December 2023 Share A fibreglass Merma (2022), incorporating a video projection performance by Dominique Bousquet, is part of Tony Oursler’s Creature Features installation Tony Oursler As Miami Art Week winds down, the Boca Raton Museum of Art is keeping the magic going with an enchanted offering: Smoke and Mirrors: Magical Thinking in Contemporary Art , a thematic exhibition that seeks truth through the lens of deception...