Upon an invitation to design a publication in collaboration with the artists of the Pavillon Neuflize OBC, Emmanuelle Antille delivers a singular project exploring the relationships between tattooing and contemporary art.

Emmanuelle Antille & Maxime Buechi (eds.), co-published by Sang Bleu and Le Pavillon, the research lab at Palais de Tokyo.

 

Upon an invitation to design a publication in collaboration with the artists of the Pavillon Neuflize OBC, Emmanuelle Antille delivers a singular project exploring the relationships between tattooing and contemporary art.

As a continuation of her own project, anchored in the exploration of community ties, Emmanuelle Antille invites each of the Pavillon residents — a group of artists with variegated practices and concerns — to reflect on body inscription and its various forms by producing a series of images.

This encounter, part of a special issue of Sang Bleu, an independent contemporary art magazine edited by Maxime Buechi, shifts the focus of reflection and production of these visual artists towards the question of inscription, apprehended in its ritualistic dimension.

This collaborative book project provides an extensive space for dialogue between its various contributors; it explores a multitude of skins permanently marked with patterns and writings, and presents, through a scattered and mostly visual geography, a multiplicity of narratives interconnected through the experience of the mark.