Notes
The making of the book - no glue, just paper cut, folded and sewn - is like one of clothes. All pages are printed on the same paper. The book exists in two versions: a bound edition and an unbound one. In the unbound version, text and images can be rearranged by the reader.
Publisher Note
La Disparition is a conceptual and visual book that explores French identity and collective memory through the juxtaposition of two seemingly disparate events from 2018: the Paris Fashion Weeks and the Gilets Jaunes protests. These events—both performative, both public—are treated as mirrored enactments of the same phenomenon: the collective ritual of time, echoing the philosophical idea of the Eternal Return. Drawing from 19th-century insurrectionary literature, the book questions how power is performed, challenged, and made visible—or erased—in public space. At the center of the text that comes like a book within the book, revealing and disrupting the image sequence—is Vendôme: at once the iconic Parisian square and a small provincial town. This nodal point collapses geography and symbolism.
| Publisher | |
|---|---|
| Release Place | Paris, France |
| Edition | 1st edition |
| Release Date | 2024 |
| Printrun | 100 |
| Identifiers |
ISBN-13:
978-2-9583957-1-1
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| Inscription | numbered, signed |
| Original Price | 25.00 EUR |
| Availability | Available |
| Work | |
|---|---|
| Subform | 20 Pages Inner Booklet Stitched |
| Topics | Eternal Return Of The Same, Fashion Show, Fashion Week, Gilets Jaunes, Insurrection, Photojournalism, Riot, Symbolic Violence |
| Methods | Analog Photography, Artists’ Writing, Photography, Writing |
| Object | |
|---|---|
| Format | softcover; saddlestitch |
| Dimensions | 19.7 × 28.0 × 5.0 cm |
| Interior | |
|---|---|
| Pages | 64 |
| Technique | Color Offset |
Web references
Esotopies website
