La Suite Basque
- Publisher
- L'Artiere
- Year
- 2023
- ISBN
- 978-88-945155-5-8
- Specifications
- Handmade slipcase box with seven leporellos and two booklets
16.2 x 21.2 cm
One leporello printed in silver on black paper
One leporello with black glossy silkscreen on cotton paper
Four leporellos in four colours with varnish on different papers
One leporello in four colours with glossy silkscreen on coated paper
English, French and Basque
Texts by Marie Darrieussecq, Aitzpea Leizaola, Martine Sadion
Illustration by Chiara Terraneo
Design by Léo Favier
Limited edition
Shortlisted, Rencontres d'Arles Book Awards 2023
Charles Fréger turns to the Basque Country and to the figures that inhabit its festivals and rituals: the black-clad, the witches, the swallows, the calvary. Seven concertinas held in a handmade case gather costumes, masks and gestures, following the thread of a culture that keeps reinventing its own images, and the texts read those figures against exile and the border.