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Le corps de l’identité absolue (signed)

by Gabriela Morawetz

Photographs: Gabriela Morawetz

Text: Michel Houellebecq

Publisher: Le Renard Pale

Year: 2020

Price: 3500 €

Comments: The book measures 20 x 28 cm, the spine in black calf: 4 cm, the 3 colour photos by Gabriela Morawetz measure 20 x 40 cm, are folded in origami and laminated in the book.

Michel Houellebecq's poem The Body of Absolute Identity is accompanied by 3 original colour photographs by Gabriela Morawetz, printed on 70g Awagame Japan paper by the photographer in her studio.
This book was designed by Gabriela Morawetz, Patricia Dupuy & Bernard Soria, is made of recycled straw board, antique squared paper and coloured papers, all bound in black suede. On the cover, the laser-cut letters reveal the title on Rivoli paper. An original plaster work by the artist, different in each copy, is inserted in a cut-out window at the end of the volume. at the end of the volume. This edition is limited to 25 copies signed by the author and the artist.

This book, born of Gabriela's discovery of a mystical poem in the work of of Michel Houellebecq's work, required 2 years of maturation, conception and and realization in order to achieve this material and spiritual material and spiritual. The mystery of the poem echoes the strangeness of of the times we live in. The result is that certain materials are brought together in an unusual way in a book. In an e-mail, Michel Houellebecq described "The Body of Absolute Identity" as an old file in the absolute identity" as an old case in the sense that the mystical quest at the heart of the of the poem has been open to him for a very long time. So we have used this remark to create the back used this remark to create the spine of the book so that it gives the impression of the impression of different coloured folders bound together by a strip of by a black velvet calfskin band.
Gabriela's work is totally interwoven into the shape of the book where the straw cardboard responds to the old squared paper (where the text is printed), while the photos laminated on grey cardboard the outside of the pages. Architecture is at the epicentre of the structure and in the plaster creations integrated in the cut-out forms. If the book's framework evokes a sense of simplicity through the neutrality of a poor cardboard, the photographs printed on Japanese cotton paper bring a sober refinement to the whole. The last page of the book is clear and through a cut-out window (with a random shape), the colophon signed by the authors appears as an epilogue. Once the book has been read and explored (it requires some manipulation on the part of the reader), the mystery of the author's spiritual quest remains, in close concordance with the artist's interventions. This mystery, barely touched upon, impenetrable and complex, which we brush up against when opening this strange book, nevertheless remains with us for a long time once the last page is closed.

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Le corps de l’identité absolue (signed)

by Gabriela Morawetz

Photographs: Gabriela Morawetz

Text: Michel Houellebecq

Publisher: Le Renard Pale

Year: 2020

Price: 3500 €

Comments: The book measures 20 x 28 cm, the spine in black calf: 4 cm, the 3 colour photos by Gabriela Morawetz measure 20 x 40 cm, are folded in origami and laminated in the book.

Michel Houellebecq's poem The Body of Absolute Identity is accompanied by 3 original colour photographs by Gabriela Morawetz, printed on 70g Awagame Japan paper by the photographer in her studio.
This book was designed by Gabriela Morawetz, Patricia Dupuy & Bernard Soria, is made of recycled straw board, antique squared paper and coloured papers, all bound in black suede. On the cover, the laser-cut letters reveal the title on Rivoli paper. An original plaster work by the artist, different in each copy, is inserted in a cut-out window at the end of the volume. at the end of the volume. This edition is limited to 25 copies signed by the author and the artist.

This book, born of Gabriela's discovery of a mystical poem in the work of of Michel Houellebecq's work, required 2 years of maturation, conception and and realization in order to achieve this material and spiritual material and spiritual. The mystery of the poem echoes the strangeness of of the times we live in. The result is that certain materials are brought together in an unusual way in a book. In an e-mail, Michel Houellebecq described "The Body of Absolute Identity" as an old file in the absolute identity" as an old case in the sense that the mystical quest at the heart of the of the poem has been open to him for a very long time. So we have used this remark to create the back used this remark to create the spine of the book so that it gives the impression of the impression of different coloured folders bound together by a strip of by a black velvet calfskin band.
Gabriela's work is totally interwoven into the shape of the book where the straw cardboard responds to the old squared paper (where the text is printed), while the photos laminated on grey cardboard the outside of the pages. Architecture is at the epicentre of the structure and in the plaster creations integrated in the cut-out forms. If the book's framework evokes a sense of simplicity through the neutrality of a poor cardboard, the photographs printed on Japanese cotton paper bring a sober refinement to the whole. The last page of the book is clear and through a cut-out window (with a random shape), the colophon signed by the authors appears as an epilogue. Once the book has been read and explored (it requires some manipulation on the part of the reader), the mystery of the author's spiritual quest remains, in close concordance with the artist's interventions. This mystery, barely touched upon, impenetrable and complex, which we brush up against when opening this strange book, nevertheless remains with us for a long time once the last page is closed.

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