Synchronicités

A young blonde woman stands in front of a Gerhard Richter painting in a museum in Baden-Baden. She is wearing a jacket or a coat (the framing does not allow us to specify) whose vertical and multicoloured lines resemble those of the painting she is admiring.

Could this be a new form of mimicry, a symbiosis between the viewed and the viewer, between art and human beings? Could it be too good to be true? In this book, Sophie Aaron, who has spent several years photographing visitors to museums and galleries, sets out to prove the contrary.