The essays collected in Thinking – Resisting – Reading the Political engage with political phenomena in their interrelations with arts as well as with recent theoretical and philosophical perspectives on the very meaning of politics, the political, and community.
21 texts on the notion of difference in the context of the outer space, the notebooks of the artists and writers in residence at the French Space Agency and an interview with Brazilian artist Eduardo Kac.
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
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A retrospective overview of the 11th edition of the Lyon Biennale, curated by Argentinean curator Victoria Noorthoorn, with a focus on the two parallel programs “Veduta” and “Resonance”, held in the Lyon conurbation and its region.
Artist's book: a collection of 85 landscape drawings and sketches by Euan Macdonald that were produced over a three year period in many parts of the world.
Taking the form of a ciné-roman, this book, based on Ursula Mayer's 16mm film of the same name, with a screenplay written by Maria Fusco, experiments in cinematic and linguistic registers through polyphonic monologue.
A staging of reality that questions the fictionality of cinema (casting in order of appearance: Douglas Booth, Ashley Hinshaw, Nana Agyapong, Béatrice Rosen, Sharon Stone, Roxane Mesquida, Nicole Garcia...).
A collective work / exhibition on paper / second reading book / subjective anthology: ten artists' inserts conceived specifically for the book, and ten historical and contemporary philosophical texts (Bloch, Lukács, Poincaré, Sloterdijk...) in relation.
An archive of the widespread publishing activities of Triple Canopy, the editorial collective and online magazine based in New York, Los Angeles, and Berlin.
Benjamin Sabatier shells over the alphabet the founding principles of his work. This limited edition is accompanied by a can compression, a unique signed piece.
An analysis of the contemporary crisis of the concept of community, rethought in a philosophical but also poetical perspective, from the work of Maurice Blanchot, Jean-Luc Nancy, Giorgio Agamben, Georges Bataille, René Char, and Henri Michaux.
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A study of the production and reception of art in the USSR in the years 1920-1930 through the analysis of the work of the Society of Easel Painters (OST)'s members.
Yves Bélorgey's paintings and drawings, reflecting the central topic of the artist's work: a particular stage of modern architecture and the modern city, which Bélorgey sets out to rediscover, reinvent pictorially and record methodically.
Artist's book: Joël Hubaut's ABC (“a compressed, unprecise mini ABC of the art of living for the young generations in art schools in particular and for everyone else in general”).