Inès Bonduki, Linha Vermelha, Red Line, Editora Tempo d'Imagem, Fortaleza, Brazil, 2017, ed. 600

This is a really powerful and moving accordion that takes full advantage of the unique expansiveness of the accordion format. Begun as part of her MA in Visual Arts course work it was originally self-published in a small edition of fifteen in 2016. Of this work Bonduki writes:

 "Between 2013 and 2015, I was dedicated to going and returning countless times on the Red Line of Sao Paulo's Metro at its peak hours, to experience and try to photograph the bodily and emotional intensity of this daily experience of 3 million people from Sao Paolo.

At the same time, I recorded the also intense dance jams in Sao Paulo (Contact Improvisation), in which bodily interaction takes place in an expansive way and from the sensitive listening of the other. By associating these two realities in the edition of the book Red Line, I realized that they came together and mixed, becoming almost the same."  

One commentator has noted how this book manages to convey something of the "corporal experience of urban life," and I would also add the sensuousness of this life as well.

Running in a long line along the length of the reverse is a text which seems to be a free verse poem in response to the experience of being in such close proximity to one's fellow travelers. This piece is by Marcelo Segreto.

43 double-sided pages, individual pages 6.5" x 6.5", and when opened 23' 3.5".

credits info inside the back cover

back cover

Jean-Charles Blais, Miracle, Editions Analogues, Arles, France, 2004

This accordion is the catalogue for Blais' one-person exhibition titled Miracle that featured works of his from the years 2000-2004, and was shown at the Musée Réattu in Arles, France from July 8 - October 10, 2004.

On one side of the catalogue the pages are comprised of completely black and white shapes that undulate across the pages, and appear to be selections from his video works. I rather liked this return to basics and the presence of large expanses of white pages was strangely attractive to me.

The reverse side goes into detail about his philosophy and features a variety of the works in the show. My apologies to French speakers as my translation skills are no match for the texts printed here, but it appears Blais works with installations in public spaces as well as working in video. 

32 double-sided pages, individual pages 11.75" x 7.75", and when fully open it measures 20' 8".

catalogue sleeve and catalogue

reverse side of catalogue with catalogue sleeve

 

Bureau d'Investigation Photographique (BIP), Kyrielle, Editions Incertain Sens, Rennes, 2017, ed. 300

The BIP (Bureau of Photographic Investigation) is a French collective of seven photographers and this accordion represents ten years of work carried out between 2005 and 2015. The photographers are: Antoine Chaudet, Bruno Elizabeth, Richard Louvet, Damien Mousseau, Emilie Traverse, Matthieu Tremblin and Philemon Vanorle.

The structure of this book is based on a Kyrielle, which is a French form of rhyming poetry, and here each photographer chose an image that responded to the one before it, thus creating a work that is connected by the associations each photographer discerned in the previous work. The result is an accordion exhibition of the group's work. Also included in this book is a sheet with the photographers names and the works of their's included in this book. 

34 double-sided pages, individual pages 8.5" x 6.25", and when fully opened 17' 8.5".

back cover with statement about the book