Alfredo Aceto. Faces of Francis

'Faces of Francis’ is the title of Alfredo Aceto’s exhibition at the Maison du livre, de l’image et du son. Sounds great right? Like the title of a spy novel that keeps you on the edge of your seat all summer long or the name of a board game where you exchange counterfeit banknotes. Repeated several times in a row it becomes difficult to pronounce as if it were an exercise used by speech therapists. In truth, Faces of Francis is the name of the artist’s perfume. One could say that this title, which so easily excites the imagination, was revealed to him in his bathroom. The images and objects created by Alfredo Aceto are derived from things and signs that are within reach or just happened to be there. Their rearrangement, even by a simple movement, triggers possible fictions and sketch out suspicious situations. We're surrounded by innuendo! Through his work he criticizes dominant representations and cults of power: masculine, economic, creative...

Alfredo Aceto, born in 1991 in Turin, lives and works in Geneva. His work has been exhibited at the Centre d'art contemporain (Geneva), the MCBA (Lausanne), the CAPC (Bordeaux), and many other venues. He teaches at the ECAL in Lausanne. He is represented by Parliament, Paris.