Drawing, writing, translating, mapping, sequencing, binding, bookmaking, assembling. Experiments with narration and its malleable edges.
fabre[dot]margot2@gmail[dot]com
Drawing, writing, translating, mapping, sequencing, binding, bookmaking, assembling. Experiments with narration and its malleable edges.
fabre[dot]margot2@gmail[dot]com
Paris est une promesse.
2018. Digital printing, postcard stand.
The project is an attempt to short-circuit and disrupt stagnant representations of the city of Paris, perpetuated by stale tourist imagery. I collected sounds and fragments from daily itineraries in the 18th arrondissement and built an [index] archive of vernacular signs. This investigation is embodied in the process of tracing and retracing, never settling into a fixed form, a sensorial experience of the urban environment and reclaiming its clichés. I then extracted a visual vocabulary of signs and built a souvenir display that celebrates the uncanny, singular landmarks and shop signs. The postcard becomes a generative canvas for articulating a sense of place and desire.