Ensembles, Éléonore False
launch on 10 november 2024
ISBN: 979-10-95991-28-1
French/English
soft cover with artist cut out
21 × 30 cm, CMYK
256 pages
Art direction: Syndicat et Eléonore False
Editorial direction: Mathilde de Croix
2024
35€
Books are the starting point for the majority of Éléonore False’s works. It is there that she forages for the images she culls directly from the page, or which she reproduces. An initial spatialization then takes place in the binders that she fills up with transparent folders containing her cut-out forms and their leftovers. The placement of these elements is far from fixed, and nor is their order and chronology.
For this publication, her first monograph, selections from these binders have been reproduced, with gradual shifts in scale. Together with the graphic design agency and publisher Syndicat, False has for the first time fixed some of these intuitive assemblages and fortuitous juxtapositions. The compositions that result are sometimes characterized by an immediate clarity—as in one where a chameleon is overlaid onto various strata of organic material. Others allow for glimpses of their various original iconographic sources, or feature a highly varied formal vocabulary: the visual power of a full-page, glossy image of a red-lipped mouth turned on to a vertical axis, or the evocative power of counterforms on blank pages that reveal the silhouette of a face through a careful strategy of reserve.
The pages reproduced here are interspersed with five ensembles of works. In each ensemble, several different series, typologies, and moments intersect and alternate with one another to reveal new relationships alongside those that have emerged from her past exhibitions. Five authors have agreed to propose texts on and around False’s work, each focusing on one particular ensemble, while Kathy Alliou accompanies the artist’s words in an interview that retraces more than a decade of her practice.
Mathilde de Croix
Texts: Franck Balland, Sarina Basta, Mathilde de Croix, Muriel Enjalran, Alexandre Quoi
Interview with: Kathy Alliou
