Royal Book Lodge, Montreuil

Juli Susin and Véronique Bourgoin and Popline Ficho

There is a publishing house that turned publishing into a collaborative process that transcends the physical reality of the book, and generates constellations of meaning that combine video, performance, photography, painting, drawing and other media.

 

There are several exhibitions, there’s an archive, a collection.There is a beginning – a kind of HQ in Montreuil, just outside of Paris. There are the two artists Juli Susin and Véronique Bourgoin and their artist friends from Berlin, Marseille, Prague, Iceland, Eastern Europe, Los Angeles, Paraguay.

 

The exhibition at Art-O-Rama 2025 takes as its starting point the theme of transformation – of the human form, identity, and spirit – into the unknown. The artists books, drawings, and ceramics engage with the subtle and radical shifts that occur in the human condition. Some changes are visible: bodies, faces, gestures. Others are intangible: memory, identity, desire.

 

The presented artists books serve as intimate containers of transformation.They are born out of a collaboration between Juli Susin and the artists: AndyHope 1930, Jonathan Meese, André Butzer, matali crasset, Daniel Johnston,Jason Rhoades, Dorota Jurczak & Armin Krämer & Abel Auer & Kai Althof,Gudny Gudmundsdottir, Sara Glaxia, Popline Fichot, and Véronique Bourgoin.

 

The recent drawings by Véronique Bourgoin and Juli Susin capture moments in flux, figures floating in or rather beyond time. Their ceramics embody tactile evidence of shape-shifting, growing or dissolving into decay

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