@609 Xinhua Road
Léopold Prudon
«Shanghai Chagrin»
Digital print, 62 cm x 69 cm, 2024
«Shanghai Chagrin»
Digital print, 62 cm x 69 cm, 2024
I remember walking at night by the streets of Shanghai carrying a feeling of unreality, as if the people walking by were actors projecting their shadows on walls that looked like a theatre stage. Behind these walls, the buildings were all black, darker than night, like figures painted on a wall. They belonged to a space that didn't seem to exist in the same reality as me. An abstraction. It was both frightening and beautiful. The feeling is still clear in me.
--> Shanghai Chagrin
@387 Xinhua Road
Pauline Lecerf
«A Tribute to USB Cables»
Digital print, 62 cm x 69 cm, 2024
«A Tribute to USB Cables»
Digital print, 62 cm x 69 cm, 2024
This drawing is a tribute to all the USB cables we've known in our lives. Although they may have been lost, broken or rendered useless by programmed obsolescence, perhaps they still continue to create links, in our hearts and our minds.
"TUT" (26 stories beyond language) is a collection of comic strips in the Snoopy tradition, sketching the modern world with humour and a sense of the uncanny. Pauline Lecerf's first book, 'TUT' also tells the story of its author between the frames, with subtlety and darkness, through her chronicles of barbapapas, street lamps, USB cables and happiness in general... What immediately sets Pauline Lecerf apart when you read her is her ability to reach us with very little, in very little time, to move us a lot, question us a lot and make us laugh.
"TUT" (26 stories beyond language) is a collection of comic strips in the Snoopy tradition, sketching the modern world with humour and a sense of the uncanny. Pauline Lecerf's first book, 'TUT' also tells the story of its author between the frames, with subtlety and darkness, through her chronicles of barbapapas, street lamps, USB cables and happiness in general... What immediately sets Pauline Lecerf apart when you read her is her ability to reach us with very little, in very little time, to move us a lot, question us a lot and make us laugh.
@602 Dingxi Road
Léa Murawiec
«The Great Beyond»
Digital print, 62 cm x 69 cm, 2024
«The Great Beyond»
Digital print, 62 cm x 69 cm, 2024
I drew this page in my book The Great Beyond thinking of the moments when I climbed on the roofs of Shanghai buildings. When you're in the street, the horizon is blocked by the facades of the buildings. But when you get up high, you can't see the end of the city's density, there are skyscrapers as far as the eye can see! It's a sensation of horizontal vertigo that I haven't experienced anywhere else, and which I wanted to convey in the book.