Format 28 x 40 cm,
52 pages sewn
and glued binding.
37 B&W photos printed in pigment inks on Arctic Paper Pure Rough 150g.
Soft cover Berber canvas with screen printing.
Artist edition of 6 handmade copies.
A snake skin… Monstrous and ideal. Cold in appearance, harmonious and rough like a stone. Not long ago imperfect and magnificent at present. A kind of meticulous and sibilant thing like a sublime imperfection. Making us feel scared. Mistrust the attraction and the temptation. Desire the fear. Poisonous and fragile, totemic and mysterious, familiar as unknown. Like living a feared long-awaited moment. The experience is already agreed upon but is still unique. Even then, it is a memory. Experience something here while not being there. Standing somewhere else and gazing upon infinity. Burgeoning, withdrawn into silence and finally freed, when times are changing. When all these words are washed away by the rain.
La peau d’un serpent…
Monstre et idéal.
Froide en apparence, régulière et rugueuse comme la pierre.
Imparfaite hier et magnifique aujourd’hui.
Une chose minutieuse, sifflante, à la sublime imperfection. Autant qu’on en a peur. Méfiance de l’attirance et de la tentation. Un désir de l’effroi.
Venimeuse et fragile, totémique et insondable, familière et inconnue. Comme vivre un jour attendu redouté. L’expérience déjà actée mais point vécue. Un souvenir déjà.
Vivre ici sans le là. Ailleurs et contempler l’infini.
Renaissante, murée et sortie de son cadre quand les temps changent, quand la pluie efface tous ces mots.
RETICULATUM is a collaboration with the photographer Vincent Brière for his first photobook.
This project is not available.
