Aurélien Froment
Who here listens to BBC news on Friday night?
50 pairs of memory cards facing down on a transparent table, 3 folding stools

The work consists of a top glass table on which lays images facing down. The images are selected from the Artists own archive of key-images reflecting on his practice such as figures of Projection, Transparency, Resemblance, Series, Mistakes, etc…

Being upside down, the images invite the viewer to turn them up. Each picture is printed twice so it invites the viewer to find the pairs of the same image. As a memory game, it involves the viewer in the identification of the represented objects and in memorizing the place of each image in relation to the others. Despite the fact that everyone had probably experienced before this game of memory, there is no specific instructions to follow. The printed grid on the glass acts as a possibility of other combinations and permutations in the order of things.

The title of the work is a mnemonic sentence used by science student to memorize the first line of the classification table of the elements by Russian scientist Mendeleev (wHo for Hydrogène, here for Helium, listens for Lithium, BBC for Beryllum, Bozon, Carbone, news for Nitrogen, on for Oxygen, Friday for Fluorine and night for Neon)