Through a series of photographs of 1970s American cars created using expired Polaroids, Aurélien Mole pays a dual tribute to both photography and the history of the automobile.
"An expired Polaroid is characterized by the drying out of the developer stored to the left of the image. While developing, this solution spreads across the light-sensitive surface to reveal the photograph. If there isn't enough, the image remains incomplete. In 2005, I bought a batch of discounted films after Polaroid went bankrupt in 2001. The photos are sorted according to their development state."
Aurélien Mole
Aurélien Mole (born 1975 in Tehran, Iran, lives and works in Paris) is a French artist, art critic and curator. After graduating of the Louvre school in History of Photography, he continued his studies at the National School of Photography in Arles and concluded it with a Master on exhibition practices directed by
Catherine Perret and
Christian Bernard.
He has been showing his work in solo exhibitions at the Lucile Corty Gallery in 2009, in Marseille in 2011, at the Villa du Parc in 2012, at the Dohyang Lee gallery in 2014, and at Passerelle in 2015. He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions in France and abroad.
As an art critic, he regularly published reviews relating to the exhibition as well as monographs on contemporary artists (
Aurélien Froment,
Guillaume Leblon, Gaël Pollin, etc.) in the
Art21 magazine. He has also produced exhibitions based on devices within the collective Le Bureau/ (
A Simple Plan, Maison Populaire de Montreuil, in 2009;
The Bonnard'syndrom, Villa du Parc 2014) and in his own name (
Images grow old otherwise as Those who Make them in 2012 at
CNEAI,
Véronique in 2019 with
Julien Carreyn at Frac Poitou Charente,
The Asides with Orange Rouge in 2023).
Since 2008, he has produced photographic documentation for numerous artists, institutions and galleries. Finally, he is one of the founding members of the magazine dedicated to exhibition views
Postdocument. And has published several books including
Artists as Iconographers with Garance Chabert (Empire) or
Véronique designed by the artist My-Lan Hoang-Thuy.
