
The Whisper / Le Chuchotement
- Publisher
- Shelter Press
- Year
- 2023
- Specifications
- Tweed embossed softcover, otabind binding
210 × 280 mm
120 pages
Four colour offset on tracing, coated and uncoated papers
First edition of 500 copies
English and French
Translation: Rachel Valinsky
Design: Bartolomé Sanson
With the support of Le Conservatoire du Littoral and Mondes Nouveaux
What if whispering could be a metaphor for a way of creating and living within biodiversity — observing and listening, being present to the world while leaving only a gentle trace? The studio then becomes a garden, the exhibition space a dune, deep listening a method of working and of exchanging with the public and the reader. This artist's book brings together pictures, drawings and poems that revolve around the eponymous installation on the pointe d'Agon, on the west coast of Normandy: on a dune acquired by the artist for the Conservatoire du Littoral stands a pierced wooden sculpture, and around it, inside that wild plot facing the sea, the walker is invited to become a whisperer and to listen to what surrounds them.