A collective story that recounts the history of the representation of natural landscapes and the imaginations that accompany them.
Conceived as a collective and multidisciplinary narrative, the second Jeu de Paume festival, titled "Moving Landscapes", brings together new imaginative responses to natural spaces and archetypes—jungle, oasis, sky, desert, forest—and the timeless symbols that centuries of representation have helped to anchor in the collective unconscious.
The accompanying catalogue is made up of two books assembled under a single cover. The first brings together contributions by writers invited to imagine a narrative inspired by a landscape, ranging from a journey through a world of sensations and a primal dive into the Congo Basin to a voyage on a boat in Patagonia and an invitation to an adventure at the foot of a glacier, ultimately following the paths of exile and homecoming. The second book can be opened alongside the collection of texts: it contains a portfolio of the exhibited works, accompanied by commentaries. The reader can thus leaf through the pages of the two books simultaneously, setting off random encounters between the literary collection and the works on display.
Published on the occasion of the eponymous festival at the Jeu de Paume, Paris, in 2025.
Featuring Mounir Ayache, Julian Charrière, Edgar Cleijne & Ellen Gallagher, Yo-Yo Gonthier, Laila Hida, Eliza Levy, Julien Lombardi, Andrea Olga Mantovani, Monica De Miranda, Richard Pak, Mathieu Pernot, Prune Phi, Léonard Pongo, Thomas Struth.
Edited and introduced by Jeanne Mercier.
Fiction texts by Bérengère Cournut, Loo Hui Phang, Wilfried N’Sondé, Xavier-Laurent Petit.
Comments on artworks by Camille Azaïs, Marie Cantos, Teresa Castro, Olivia Marsaud, Clare Mary Puyfoulhoux.
Graphic design: Studio Plastac.
published in January 2025
English edition
16 x 23 cm (2 books assembled under a single cover)
