Since the 1950s, certain artists have chosen to become idle. Rejecting the frenzy of production, they have explored the virtues of withdrawal, slowing down and inaction, creating art in a different way.
Following on from the international symposium Désœuvrer / Un-work organised in 2021 by the École Normale Supérieure, the École du Louvre and the Beaux-Arts de Paris, this book examines the forms and challenges of this unique artistic attitude. 
 

Edited by Morgan Labar, Armance Léger and Killian Rauline.
 

Noémie Goudal designs illusionist installations staged in the landscape, which are then adapted into films, photographs and performances. Her work explores the many ways of observing and understanding natural environments. By dissecting the layers and perspectives of an image, she questions our mental constructions of the landscape. Through a perfect balance between realism and constructed fiction, her images sublimate the scientific substrate from which they never stray.

Faire avec : mes associations


"Faire avec" here means both making do with a context and not doing things alone, but with others. These two dimensions structure this encounter with Pauline Curnier Jardin, whose work combines performance, cinema and visual arts, and is based on collective practices, collaborations and ritual forms (processions, carnivals, films).

When Claude Rutault (1941–2022), one of the leading figures of conceptual art, appropriated hopscotch, he had not yet invented definitions/methods. However, the theme of this children's game and its use in painting already reflected his penchant for artistic protocols. From August 1971 to October 1974, Claude Rutault drew or painted 519 hopscotch games, before returning to the theme in several exhibitions between 1994 and 2019.

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