Annie Descôteaux, Matières premières
September 2021
Format: 140 x 105 mm; 114 pages
ISBN: 978-2-9814330-6-0
Edition of 250, including 25 numbered copies with an intervention by the artist
French-English translation by Simon Brown
Matières premières opens with three citations from women — Anne Truitt, Anni Albers, and The Slits — resolutely setting the tone for this first book by visual artist Annie Descôteaux. Somewhere between confession and denial, rebellion and comedy, these brief poetic texts embody unabashed ecofeminist meditations on the place of the artist within the institution, and indeed within everyday life.
With Matières premières, Annie Descôteaux succeeds in constructing a series of texts that lets us see and consider the world that lies “through the looking-glass”, that is, just beyond the prism of disobedience inherent to the very art-making she practises.
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