À partir d’elle. Des artistes et leur mère
- Publisher
- delpire & co / LE BAL
- Year
- 2023
- Specifications
- Softcover
15 × 23 cm
192 pages
French
With work by Michel Journiac, Roland Barthes, Dirk Braeckman, Christian Boltanski, Anna and Bernhard Blume, Ilene Segalove, Ragnar Kjartansson, Karen Knorr, Lebohang Kganye, Anna Maria Maiolino, Michele Zaza, Mark Raidpere, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Gao Shan, Chantal Akerman, Anri Sala, Mona Hatoum, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Asareh Akasheh, Hélène Delprat, Paul Graham, Jochen Gerz, Hervé Guibert, Sophie Calle, Ishiuchi Miyako and Rebekka Deubner
Published for the exhibition at LE BAL, 12 October 2023 - 25 February 2024
What do the works gathered here have in common? Each was conceived face to face between an artist and their mother. Going beyond the mere record of an intimate and inevitably singular relation, the works chosen are built on devices that involve the body, the figure or the character of the mother in the creative process. Texts by the artists, evoking what is at stake explicitly or implicitly, accompany the reproductions, and a radical, pared-down layout ties text and picture together so that the reader moves from one artist to the next through a universal theme.