FROMONT Bérangère

I don't want to disappear completely

France

2017Artiste invité

Through a poetic and allegorical tale about childhood, Bérangère Fromont portrays a couple of days of the summer 2015 in a Latvian village. An omnipresent forest, rare people, poisonous and invasive plants. Like a ghostly presence in a rough scenery that seems frozen in time, a group of teenagers go round in circles in the summer heat as the holiday go by. Aïva, a member of the gang, starts to tell stories about the village, stories of ghosts. At night, they take her to their hideouts – a cabin in the woods, the disused graveyard where the White Lady wanders, a haunted house – looking for the remains of a youth miraculously lasting.

About the artist

Bérangère Fromont was born in 1975. She lives and works in Paris. She studied cinema and literature at La Sorbonne, then practiced photography with photographs like Claudine Doury and Antoine d’Agata. Her work was shown in France (Manifesto festival, Boutographies, Prix Maison Blanche), through Europe (Fotonai festival in Vilnius) and was published on many occasions. A book about her work was published in 2015 by Frère Editions.