Our guest: Tomás S. Criado Munich, May 2020. Only seldom do constitutional debates take the streets. However, this bureaucratically heated disputes–regularly discussed in the secluded spaces of courts–sometimes catch media attention and stir political debate. After the implementation of stark […]

Our Guest : Émeline Brulé April 2020 in San Francisco, waiting in line to enter Rainbow Grocery, a worker-owned cooperative focusing on local, vegetarian organic food. Every journey is an opportunity to discover the new signs accompanying the pandemic. On […]

Marseille, April 2020. The street was, of course, empty, confinement required. With the sun hitting it directly, the sign built on an railway company right-of-way was all the more visible with its white background. The huge letters and the two-colour […]

Paris, April 2020. We now talk behind masks and write behind glass. To justify being closed, to give the address of the website where to place an order or to inform about adjusted schedules. There are also all those little […]

Paris, April 2020. It’s the poster superimposition that strikes me first, telling me a story in two parts. The first series, slipped into plastic sleeves, is taped inside the tobacco bar window. Well protected, was the poster supposed to last, […]

Marseille, March 2020. The avenue was almost deserted, confinement obliges. The shops on the ground floor were closed, with iron curtains on which small posters recalling the government’s decision were hung. But higher up, on the upper floors, one could […]

Paris, September 2019. It is not only in the sciences that interdisciplinarity has become a watchword in the strictest sense. I do not mean a commandment, but a set of actions linked to statements by a “social obligation” – in […]

Toulouse, november 2019. A kilometre marker, I am placed in the traffic lane so that passersby can see me clearly. As a signage component, I play a dual role: I identify the road on which I am placed as a […]

It’s an old story. Morality is about more than the separation of right and wrong, fair and unfair. It also involves the distribution of tasks and responsibilities. It’s not so much a matter of pointing out the guilty who have […]

Marseille, janvier 2020 The cheque, so useful to bring the bank account into the heart of the French population, is now abhorred by banks. Too much complex materiality, manual operations and processing for this medium compared to the seemingly immediate […]

Aix-en-Provence, January 2020 Some writings are not meant to be read, or rather they are written so that they cannot be read. The Ministry of Colonies in Paris wanted to communicate secretly with the Governor of Pondicherry, who was geographically […]

Paris, January 2020. It was very cold that morning when I decidedly crossed this small flea market in the neighborhood. My eyes were drawn to the cover of a book I had just finished a few days earlier. It was […]

Paris, december 2019. If many writings circulate from one place to another, they are also displayed to be seen or read in situations. This is all the more obvious for shop signs, labels, and signboards, which much of their action […]

Prohibition signs are more than mere conveyors of law or regulation. They give the world an extra layer of reality by giving sometimes very virtual actions an extra level of existence. You never thought of throwing stones in the pond? […]

Montpellier, December 2019. In this congested storeroom in the operating room, the surgeons are practising their new robot adorned with a thousand virtues. Around this surprising man-machine arrangement, they piled up medical equipment that they no longer knew where to […]

Sesquières, august 2019. Lead sunshine and excessive temperature, the heat wave is well settled. When I get to the waterhole, I only want one thing: to take a swim! Although stunned by the heat and the blurring of vision, I […]

Huge fans of soccer and beer, the couple had come from the United States as if on a pilgrimage. Three weeks, a time-tracked tour. Barely one or two days per city. Except for the most important ones: London of course, […]

Paris, May 2019. To write one’s first name is to learn how to discipline one’s gesture to mark individuality: AGATHE, ALEX, ANIA, ARYEM, EDEN. To be born in writing in a variety of downstrokes, upstrokes and space between letters, under […]

Marseille, October 2019 The grey grids are familiar, everywhere they are present with their “danger of death” warnings, intended to avoid any intrusion. The power distribution is extremely standardized, not only in terms of frequency and voltage, but also in […]

Paris, October 2016. The Palais de Chaillot is definitely an odd place. This “neoclassical monumentalist” architectural legacy of the interwar period contains number of Nabis and Art Deco works. Most of them have been forgotten and return to their former […]

Marseille, octobre 2019 Day after day, on the way to school, the message is less and less readable. 
The sheets that were glued yesterday are now flying and soon the last ones will leave, leaving behind the grey and empty […]

Arles, July 2019. To obtain a photo is to compose a frame, an exposure, to modify the image whether in silver or digital form, to make a print on a specific paper, in a suitable format, with a frame. To […]

= Kutaisi, September 2019. At first, we did not pay so much attention to the discoloured coin operated amusement machines everywhere in downtown sidewalks. We thought it had been a long time since Space Invaders had escaped from arcade and […]

Paris, May 2019. The thin vehicle quickly became commonplace in our streets: the urban electric scooter at your disposal is the purest liberated mobility. Starting from where you want, going where you wish, by the route of your choice, with […]

Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, May 2019. The invitation card is framed in the kitchen. Witness of a past glory, it has pride of place on the wall above the stove. She had been pacing up and down for years, alone, the roads of […]

Marseilles, June 2019 It started with the noise of the compressor, unexpected in the middle of the afternoon in this quiet street. As it continued, intermittently, we looked out of the window to discover the unique device that caused it, […]

Paris, june 2019. Another escalator out of order! The situation is both embarrassing and commonplace. Luckily, this time the number of steps is not too high, and I’m not loaded. The resulting disturbance is therefore minimal, allowing me to focus […]

Things are now clear: it is not the replacement of humans by robots that is on the horizon of our professional lives, but a shift in work, a reconfiguration of everyone’s places and tasks. We have been coping with automated […]

Marseille, May 2019. The official billboards for election posters appeared a few months ago. They were quickly overwhelmed by the portrait of a putative candidate… in next year’s municipal elections, before the material and symbolic order of electoral competition seemed […]

Paris, March 2019. The Orsay Museum has (finally!) decided to tackle the issue of racism by reassigning a first name and a surname to all the characters in the works in its collection. With diary archives, photos and notebooks, it […]

Toulouse, avril 2018. La première inscription date des années 1980. Petite et inscrite en noir à la bombe, elle est restée seule pendant plusieurs mois, trônant tel un trophée conquis à la barbe des propriétaires. Puis d’autres sont progressivement apparues […]

Marseilles, April 2019 The common parts of the building are usually cold, utilitarian, empty: they are only made to pass by and deliberately avoid any form of personalization. And then, one day, small black, brown, red and white stickers nestled […]