Since 2014, the artists duo researches and intervenes with the found archive of Jacques Bourlanges, author of an intriguing theory of a correlation between star constellations and French geography. His investigation connects esoteric symbols with long forgotten history of villages and mountain names by mirroring geometric figures of stars onto the French landscape. With his passing away in 1991, he left an archive of twenty-four boxes, that waited in oblivion until 2013. It contains an overwhelming abundance of notes, carefully organised in self-made folders, geometric drawings and a profusion of maps overlapped with mysterious lines.
This project is generously supported by the Mondriaan fund and Stichting Stokroos.
Residency at Atelier Holsboer, Paris, 2014
Arti en Amicitiae, Amsterdam 2018
Arti en Amicitiae, Amsterdam 2018
Arti en Amicitiae, Amsterdam 2018
(artist book, 2018)
(artist book, 2018)
(excerpts of Sans Réponse, 2018)
Sound composition by Cécile Tafanelli
2018
(text excerpts of personal notes, poems and lists from Jacques Bourlanges' archive)
(excerpts of Sans Réponse, 2018)
