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Jérôme François’s practice brilliantly activates the gaze by inviting viewers to confront the unstable terrain of representation, memory, and mediated reality. His Cinematographic Paintings challenge us not merely to observe but to reflect — to question what it is we are truly seeing, and what lies beneath the seductive surface of the image. By isolating stills from films that themselves fictionalize the lives of artists, François exposes the recursive layers of mediation : the artist painting the actor playing an artist, all within a frame that has already been aesthetically and ideologically (...)