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Published to accompany Meriem Bennani's exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations.Through a series of photographs of flip-flops, each shoe reveals its own personality. Like a fragmented group portrait, each page gives voice to a flip-flop: a short text in English accompanies each image, oscillating between intimate manifesto, humorous note or collective statement.Resonating themes dear to the artist - living together, the individual in the crowd, contemporary forms of ritual - this book highlights the sensitive intelligence of the piece, between mundane gesture and symbolic meaning.

Published on the occasion of the exhibitions at Lafayette Anticipations and at The Renaissance Society, this book brings together a wide range of materials central to the practice of Diego Marcon. It combines four films presented with visual documents from their making: props, costumes, set fragments, preparatory drawings, working images, models, and technical plans. Usually kept behind the scenes, these elements reveal the meticulous precision with which Marcon constructs his worlds.Conceived as an extension of the exhibitions, the publication operates as an archive, a working tool, and an autonomous object, offering insight into both the internal logic of Marcon’s practice and the material processes of his films.

"Steffani Jemison is an artist and writer based in Brooklyn, New York.Her practice examines the relationships between body, memory, and history, and engages with U.S. culture, vernacular language, as well as the spheres of the private, the social, and the political, through various forms of narrative and temporality.Bound is a bilingual publication (English/French) that traces two key moments in her work: an exhibition at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève in 2024 and one at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris in 2025. The book brings together images, an interview with the artist, texts by Steffani Jemison, and a selection of texts that shed light on her practice, some of which are translated into French for the first time.Co-published by Lafayette Anticipations and Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève."

OntheoccasionofMartineSyms'exhibition,thiscatalogentitledTotalretracestheartisticpracticeofMartineSymssince2005,immersingreadersinatotalworkofartthatlooksatthe“theateroftheeveryday”,therolesweplayinit,andthesurveillancemechanismsthatcontrolthem.Theartist'sworkbridgesthegapbetweenthepublicandtheprivate,theseenandtheunseen,theinsideandtheoutside.Betweenintimatereferences,historicalarchives,culturalrepresentationsofBlackness,feministhistoryandinvocationsofspirituality,Totalpresentsitselfasaworkinwhichthemechanismsofidentityconstructionareplayedoutandreflected.AuthorClaudiaRankinewritesanacademicessayanalyzingMartineSyms'bodyofwork.ArtistandpoetHannahBlackcomposesanexperimentaltextbasedonastrologicalreferencestoSyms'personality.Finally,exhibitioncuratoranddirectoroftheLafayetteFoundationRebeccaLamarcheisinconversationwiththeguestartist.