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BENJAMIN LAURENT AMAN
IMAGINARY TIME
15. November - 19. December 2015
The concept of Imaginary Time recalls the field of mathematics and cosmology. Rather than evoking
imagination, Imaginary Time suggests a different temporality than the one experienced every day,
where events occur linearly, in a forward motion. Imaginary Time makes no distinction between the
dimensions of space and time, revealing no substantial difference between rest and movement.
Past, present and future are equal and stable, offering the very same sense of wonder that one
experiences in a physical space. It is a disoriented time, with no start nor end, continuous and
homogeneous, infinite and immanent. In this monadic world, how much our modern consciousness is
capable of grasping a diversity of moments? (J.F. Lyotard, The Inhuman: Reflections on time, 1992).
Consider an understanding of time wherein it takes us somewhere else, to this invisible limit which
permits the exploration of a time that doesn’t occur, threatening the false integrity of perception.
Through his graphite drawings, installations and sound traces, Benjamin Laurent Aman relentlessly
invokes vibrations and imperceptible frequencies, awakening our perception to transitory states.
An effort to delay and multiply reactions, increasing and expanding all possible responses.
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Night table with remains, 2015
Wood, plaster, neon light, cardboard, balls, 32 x 80 x 32 cm
Exhibition view
Exhibition view
Imaginary Time, 2015
Video, Ed. 3, 10’
Imaginary Time (screen capture), 2015
Imaginary Time (screen capture), 2015
With dimension of absence, 2015
Plaster, wood, polystyrene, variable dimensions
Whispering room, 2015
Metallic grid, cold neon light, empty space behind, 60 x 60 cm
Imaginary Time sound track Excerpt
https://soundcloud.com/user-81871814/benjamin-laurent-aman-imaginary-time-soundtrack-6min-excerpt
Night table with remains, 2015
Wood, plaster, neon light, cardboard, balls, 32 x 80 x 32 cm
Behind, 2015
Graphite and pastel on paper, 29,7 x 42 cm
Behind, 2015
Graphite and pastel on paper, 29,7 x 42 cm
Behind, 2015
Graphite and pastel on paper, 29,7 x 42 cm
Behind, 2015
Graphite and pastel on paper, 29,7 x 42 cm
Benjamin Laurent Aman (1981, FR) is a sound and visual artist whose work oscillates between
drawing, sculpture and sound, most frequently echoing each other and flowing from a range of
perceptions combining a physical, a mental and an emotional approach of space.
Since 2005, Aman’s work has been exhibited in numerous group exhibitions (Centre Georges Pompidou
in Paris, Centre d’art contemporain L’Onde in Vélizy-Vollacoublay, CAC Nei Liicht Luxembourg,
Selasar Sunaryo Museum Bandung, Space London, sector 2337 in Chicago) and dedicated ones
(Styx Projects, Able Kulturverein, L’Atelier-ksr in Berlin, PapelArt in Paris, Kunstraum Michael
Barthel in Leipzig). In Paris, the drawings cabinets The Drawer and the Manucius Editions presented
his work as well as publishing it (Relève de la garde, Collection Sec au Toucher, Edition P, Marseille).
Since 2007, BLA has carried out many sound performances all over Europe. He has been invited to
festivals and radio shows (Epsilonia in Paris, Le tétraèdre in Bruxelles, The Wire on Air, Resonance
FM in London...) and performed at the 10th Berlin Biennale, Transmediale X, Club Transmediale
(CTM) and Nu Substance Indonesia amongst others.
Benjamin Laurent Aman is the founder of the Razzle Dazzle label, publishing editions related to music and sound art. He is the co-founder of the curatorial project Sleep Disorders together with Marion
Auburtin. Aman lives and works between Berlin and Paris. He is represented by L’Atelier-ksr in Berlin,
Kunstraum Michael Barthel in Leipzig and PapelArt in Paris.