Grammatical, Paris — 2019

Alba is a visual essay inside the Barcelona Pavilion designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich, a journey with the sculpture created by Georg Kolbe placed in a water basin.

The story told by the artist Frederic Forest and the photographer Quentin Simon follows a day of Alba, her relationship with the architecture of this iconic place. The minimal drawings play perfectly with the silver photographies. ALBA meets and shares their vision of her feelings. This graphic movie on paper shows the allure of light, the awakening of Alba, stares the movement of her body dancing with the marble walls, her reflection, the nature that surrounds, and finally her escape to real life. Frédéric never went to the Barcelona Pavilion.He used the photographs that Quentin brought back.Alba is the resulting script of this exchange, drawing a piece of its journey, framing its image. An analogical dialogue.