Aurélien Froment

Aurélien Froment studied at the École régionale des beaux-Arts in Rennes and Nantes and at Manchester's Metropolitan University. At present he is a projectionist in an avant-garde cinema in Paris. He recently made a film about Arcosanti, an experimental city in the Arizona desert, and the film The Apse, the Bell and the Antelope (2005) about the life work of the architect Paolo Soleri. He has held solo exhibitions in Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers (2005, with Ryan Gander, who was also a guest at Curating the Library in 2006) and in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Mulhouse (2002). His work has also been shown in group exhibitions at the Musée d'art contemporain in Lyon (2005), Nuit blanche in Paris (2005). HARTware Projekte in Dortmund (2003) and Espace Paul Ricard in Paris (2002). His films have been shown at various festivals in Berlin, Paris, Geneva, Lyon and Bonn. In 2001 he won the Prix de la jeune creation Mulhouse 001, foire des écoles d'art.