They make authors write but do they make them speak? This year, the Brive book fair is hosting a unique photo exhibition created by Hannah Assouline and supplemented by texts by Jérôme Garcin.
Around fifty black and white diptychs highlight the faces of authors but also and above all their hands
“This idea of seeing the hands of writers which are not necessarily beautiful hands, which are especially the writers of the 80s, 90s, very nicotine-filled hands, which are hands that they sometimes hid in front of the Pivot cameras, but which are the hands of artists, of craftsmen who shape a book, a page, a text, a prose, it moves me terribly” explains Jérôme Garcin.
An evolving exhibition…completed in Brive?
This work began 30 years ago with a portrait of Claude Levis Strauss and which could continue in Brive explains Jérôme Garcin, the president of this 2024 book fair.
“I asked Hannah and I asked the town of Brive to agree to perhaps, with a fairly rapid print run, the hands of one of these writers, Gaël Faye perhaps, or Kamel Daoud or a other ? Which we would exhibit in Brive and which would be the photo(s) taken in Brive as part of the book fair.
To be discovered during the Book Fair, at the theater and at the Ouvroir, the opening takes place on Saturday, at 7 p.m., at the Ouvroir.
