Bøker utgitt av Lafayette Anticipations

On the occasion of Martine Syms' exhibition, this catalog entitled Total retraces the artistic practice of Martine Syms since 2005, immersing readers in a total work of art that looks at the "theater of the everyday", the roles we play in it, and the surveillance mechanisms that control them. The artist's work br idges the gap between the public and the private, the seen and the unseen, the inside and the outside. Between intimate references, historical archives, cultural representations of Blackness, feminist history and invocations of spirituality, Total presents itself as a work in which the mechanisms of identity construction are played out and reflected. Author Claudia Rankine writes an academic essay analyzing Martine Syms' body of work. Artist and poet Hannah Black composes an experimental text based on astro logical references to Syms' personality. Finally, exhibition curator and director of the Lafayette Foundation Rebecca Lamarche is in conversation with the guest artist.

Thinking, dreaming, foreseeing or fearing the future has shaped our presence in the world since its very beginnings. In our current context, one of profound metamorphosis and uncertainty, the exhibition and the book Coming Soon revisit this relationship we have with the unknown. Between predictions, oracles, systems of anticipation and capitulations, this book features essays by Sandrine Alexandre, K Allado-Mcdowell, Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone, Kara Keeling, Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, Martine Syms and Olivier Zeitoun. It also includes notes on the works exhibited and visuals. The future is a time-space in constant evolution, which all don't get to inhabit under the same terms and conditions. Engaging us to think urgently about the future through different understandings of togetherness, Coming Soon focuses on possible paths of writing, imagining, creating and embodying collective outcomes.