Product Details
- Publisher: Sequence Press (2018-10-23)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 640 pages
- ISBN-13: 9780997567427
- Item Weight: 1899.45 grams
- Dimensions: 9.69 x 7.19 x 2.12 cm
Box set documenting six of Jean-Luc Moulène's most well-known photographic series.
This special edition box set contains four volumes documenting six of Jean-Luc Loulène's most well-known photographic series. His practice cuts diagonally across the oft-stratified spheres of economics, politics, and culture in order to reveal gaps in assumed knowledge and allow new figures and transparencies to emerge. Unlike a scientist or a mathematician, an artist must produce work that is not merely the outcome of an experiment, but must also render the experiment available to others; Moulène sees this as his task. The resulting forms are models for other lines of inquiry. Many of Moulène's photographic images are grouped under the series Documents; this special publication is comprised of subseries chronicling the writings on the wall inside a tunnel in Paris (Le Tunnel/The Tunnel), a group of sex workers from Amsterdam (Les filles d'Amsterdam/The Amsterdam's Girls), minor statuettes at the Louvre (Le Louvre), objects made by French workers while on strike (Objets de grève/Strike Objects), an invasive plant species in urban environs (La Vigie/Watch Out), and products illegally exported from Palestine (Produits de Palestine/Palestinian Products). Here, photography functions as a research tool, a form of record keeping. Like Malraux's Musée Imaginaire, Documents unites the heterogeneity of the world under the sign of photography. Edition of 700 signed and numbered copies, English/French.
About the Author
Jean-Luc Moulène, a self-declared technicien libertaire, studied Aesthetics and Sciences of Art at the Sorbonne University in Paris, where he currently lives and works. He participated in the Taipei Biennial, the Sharjah Biennial, the First International Biennial of the Image, the Venice Biennial, the Sao Paulo Biennial, and Documenta X. Among the institutions that have dedicated solo exhibitions to his work are the Secession, Centre Pompidou, Villa Medici, Rome, Kunstverein Hannover, Dia:Beacon, Carré d'art-Musée d'art contemporain, Nîmes, Culturgest, Lisbon, Musée du Louvre, Paris, and Centre d'Art Contemporain de Genève.
