Artist's writings

A selection of critical writings that blend sociological procedure, technological metaphor, visual and theoretical apparition, indexing the material and linguistic problems of making art.

Fierce Unworking highlights Ko Murobushi's role as an unparalleled pioneer of contemporary paradigms such as body language, the third space or embodied knowledge. Ten years after his death, this volume brings together writings, poems and diary fragments in collaboration with the Ko Murobushi archive in Tokyo, making many of which are available in English for the first time.

In the staccato, nervous, vivid and even resonant language of the flea markets that Oriol Vilanova frequents, Le prix des choses discusses economics as a flow—that is, the exchange of goods for monetary value.

Fifty verses by New-York musician Moondog (new edition).

The first French translation of one of the seminal texts on the decolonization of art.

The first book to document the evolution of bio art and the aesthetic development of Eduardo Kac, the creator of the "artist's gene" as well as the controversial glow-in-the-dark, genetically engineered rabbit Alba.

A vast collection of Ettore Sottsass's writings, edited by design historian Emanuele Quinz.

This array of source material from Peter Wächtler's 2024 show at Simian, Copenhagen, traces a free-spirited voyage towards the outer edges of professional exhibition-making and beyond.

The first French translation of a selection of twenty writings by Gui Bonsiepe, a leading figure in design.

Erik Verhagen brings together seven artists from both sides of the Atlantic, who offer their perspectives on François Morellet's work, bearing witness to the enduring vitality of his legacy.

This collection of texts on design by the avant-garde Italian architectural group Superstudio (1966-1982) highlights one of the most powerful and complex moments in the period of Italian architectural neo-avant-garde, revealing a progressive and increasingly radical reflection on the meaning of design, on architecture and design as forms of thought, and finally on life itself as a project.

A collection of quotations from Thelonious Monk, organized as an alphabet book (new revised and augmented edition). More than a hundred entries based on the testimonies of musicians (Steve Lacy, Sahib Shihab, Henri Renaud) and journalists (Leonard Feather, Ira Gitler, Val Wilmer…).

A compendium of landmark interviews and seminal essays that illuminates the spirited transcontinental exchange between acclaimed postwar American artist of gestural abstraction Sam Francis and renowned French philosopher and art critic Yves Michaud.

A poetic, gestural, visual, and semantic exploration that extends the Canadian multidisciplinary artist's work on language and the body into the pages of the book.

A selection of texts by Valentine de Saint-Point, emblematic of both the Belle Époque and anticolonial militancy.

An important collection of poems by Jimmie Durham (1940–2021).

A transcript of a lecture by Harun Farocki exploring the relationship between architecture and cinema.

P. Staff's first collection of poetry.

A comprehensive retrospective of the Spanish artist's work, covering his major exhibitions (Manifesta, Reina Sofia, MACBA, Raven Row, etc.) and including all of his texts published as fanzines over a period of twenty years, a new critical essay by Kim West, and a wide-ranging conversation.

The artist's book of poems.

A meditative reflection by the Lebanese artist and writer on language and its loss.

A meditative reflection by the Lebanese artist and writer on language and its loss.

An alphabetically structured, cross-referenced collection of several hundred mostly unpublished statements by internationally recognized artists, architects, scientists, and writers, including voices such as Vito Acconci, Elizabeth Diller, Hamish Fulton, Thomas Hirschhorn, Emily Segal, Rasha Salti, and Lawrence Weiner.

Invited by Mara Hoberman, nine artists from both sides of the Atlantic reflect on Joan Mitchell's life, work and enduring impact.

La ville pour tous is a collection of writings by the great architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, offering an overview of his work and of Brazilian society in the second half of the twentieth century.

The autobiography, translated into French for the first time, of Ré Soupault (1901-1996), trained at the Bauhaus, photographer, filmmaker, stylist, writer and traveler, translator of Dada and Surrealism, major protagonist of European artistic, literary and intellectual life, and companion of the avant-garde throughout the 20th century.

Looking at the white gaze on Black life, art, and being, Chipo Chipaziwa's first book explores five years of her past performances without any photographic depictions of her body. Instead, she relies on the written word—with texts penned by herself, as well as by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Olumoroti Soji-George—and on art: paintings, drawings, and prints by Margaret Joba-Woodruff, Sophia Lapres, and David Ezra Wang.

A collection of poems by artist Tiziana La Melia.

German artist Leila Orth deals with the question of what places of remembrance there are and can be.

The artist's travel diary in New York.

A text by the Swiss artist, imbued with highly personal reflections on her relationship with creativity, notions of gender, motherhood, and the place of parenthood in the world of work (more specifically, the tensions inherent in the dual role of mother and artist).

In this essay, Alexandre Gérard recounts his discovery and interpretation—which was not entirely straightforward at first—of the work of his great-uncle, the artist Jean Dupuy (1925-2021).

An autobiographical account and uncompromising meditation on the meaning of design, in the voice of the man who represented the ethical and political conscience of the discipline in the second half of the 20th century.

Invited by Pierre Mabille, nine artists, from both sides of the Atlantic (Sheila Hicks, Fanette Mellier, Mathieu Mercier, Sarah Morris, Dan Walsh...), share their impressions of one of the 20th century's most influential abstract painters and teachers.

Invited by Marie de Brugerolle, ten artists, from both sides of the Atlantic (Ericka Beckman, Julien Bismuth, Sharon Lockhart, Tony Oursler, Anna Wittenberg...), look at the work of John Baldessari, one of the leading figures of West Coast conceptual art.

Ornella Volta's definitive posthumous book on Erik Satie, featuring all the composer's writings, largely unpublished documentation and biographical elements, for the first time precisely related to the works.

Superior and Inferior presents a facsimile reprint of Italian abstract artist and feminist Carla Accardi's provocatory publication Superiore e Inferiore and the first ever English translation of the full text.

In this anthology of essays, twelve artists explore radically self-reflexive research attitudes integrating embodied experiences within the production of theory.

The fifth issue of the annual publication dedicated to sound and music experimentation, co-published by Shelter Press and Ina GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, around the topic of voice (with François J. Bonnet, Marja Ahti, Scott Arford, Nicolas Debade, Michael Gatt, Tim Ingold, Rolf Julius, Jules Négrier, John Richards, Marina Rosenfeld, Hildegard Westerkamp, Randy Yau...).

A fictional text by Geneva based artist Timothée Calame aka T. Freakson Calame: a collection of short stories that follow the urban wanderings of a protagonist through a series of unlikely events and encounters.

Four texts by Teri Wehn Damisch, attending to the conception of her films on artist Robert Morris, photographer Gisèle Freund and anthropologist Françoise Héritier.

Full-scale reproduction of the 1974 book by Ken Isaacs (1927-2016): a manual for creating various modular structures around the concept of the "matrix", it also provides an opportunity to immerse oneself in the philosophy of this pioneering architect, whose thinking in many respects resonates strongly with our own times.

Pati Hill's cult novel, available for the first time since 1976.

Pati Hill's cult novel, available in French for the first time since 1976 (also available in English edition).

A2 size offset folded poster of Sylvain George's essay "What the Night Sees".

A book of fiction that brings together two environmentalist literary “fantasies” by Matali Crasset, with line drawings.

The collected writings of artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz, along with the stories behind them told by Alexis Vaillant.