An artist book providing an immersive entry point into Valentin Noujaïm's cinematic world.
Interzone is an artist's book published on the occasion of Valentin Noujaïm's first institutional solo exhibition, Pantheon, taking place at Kunsthalle Basel. It accompanies the premiere of the work La Défense Volume III – Demons to Diamonds and brings together for the first time the artist's complete La Défense trilogy (2022–25). Edited by Mohamed Almusibli and conceived by Noujaïm and graphic designer Kim Coussée, the volume contains extensive documentation of the trilogy's development—film stills, analog photographs, archival materials—to offer glimpses behind the scenes of the artist's collaborative process. Its nonlinear sequences create new dialogues across the trilogy and extend the exhibition's spatial logic into print. This volume is thus both an extension of the exhibition and an autonomous work, providing an immersive entry point into Noujaïm's cinematic world.
Valentin Noujaïm's (born 1991) cinematic work focuses on extinguished life trajectories and reflects on the complexity of power relations within French society. Through his engagement with anti-racist struggles and spatial imaginaries, he sheds light on experiences that have been marginalized by dominant historical and national narratives.
