Objet Tressage

2016 — 59′00″ — HD

Conceived to go along with the exhibition “François Rouan – Tressages – 1966-2016” at the musée Fabre (2017), this film is based on interviews between the artist, Philip Armstrong* and Mick Finch**.
The images of the interview are combined with archive images, shootings, film photography works, paintings, in order to revisit the five wide themes of the exhibition: Trames (Thread), Paysages (Landscapes), Combinatoires (Combinatorics), Empreintes (Imprints), Retour-avant (Return-before).

(*) Philip Armstrong: Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
(**) Mick Finch: Artist and Reader in Visual Art Practice, BA Fine Art Course Leader, Central Saint Martins, London, UK

This film was supported by the musée Fabre, Montpellier.

Extract from Objet Tressage: