Passage/s

Photos © Juliengremaud

Photos © Juliengremaud

Slipped into the back of this luminous accordion, two booklets invite the reader to immerse themselves in the themes so dear to Do Ho Suh: uprootedness, nomadism, mutation ,and the relationship with time. So many questions, addressed in a text written by Louis Philippe Dalembert; “In reality humans travel in time as they would from one country to another with a fundamental difference: the journey within time prevents a possible return”.

The graphic design of the booklets by Marine Langenegger and Emanuele Fiori of Epok Design Studio echoes Louis-Philippe Dalembert’s text, underlining the key ideas of the artist’s thought processes. Between the memory of the past and the development of a being through its form and its position in its environment.

Like the events that punctuate a life, the layout is also disrupted by the informative notes usually placed at the bottom of the page. In these bilingual booklets, the notes are positioned close to the words that refer to them, thus preventing subsequent texts from being placed there. In this way, they symbolise the events that occur in a life in the manner of commas, highlighting the enrichment they bring to everyone.

Published in 2022 by éditions Take5, Geneva under the editorial direction of Céline Fribourg and Amie Corry.
Artwork by Do Ho Suh: “Peep-show“ composed of a cardboard accordeon, framing a succession of drawings of the artist’s “Hubs” with additional design by Nicola Chan, enclosed in a cardboard tray case covered by Winter Napura Khepera marine paper, crafted by Agoria, Paris.
Stand designed by Adrien Rovero, Lausanne, in collaboration with Do Ho Suh and Céline Fribourg, crafted in whitened oak wood.
Text by Louis-Philippe Dalembert, originally written in French for this publication, translated into English by Aurélie Levy and edited by Amie Corry.
Graphic Design by Marine Langenegger and Emanuele Fiori for Epok Design Studio, Paris, in collaboration with the publisher, with “Iter” Epok Design typeset on Takeo Satogami silver gray 151g, Satogami mist 151g, Takeo Tant Select TS-1 bleu et beige chiné 116g.