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19/10/2011

Salon light#8

Point Ephemere, Paris

Every year, Cneai organises Salon Light at the Point Ephémère in Paris; a salon dedicated to micro-edition and artists’ publications, and with an international reputation, it has gathered more than 600 publishers in a period of 8 years. Its number of visitors/buyers is constantly increasing, having reached more than 6000 last year. Cneai, through Salon Light, supports and promotes the dissemination of experimental publishers whose work covers the field of art and its frontiers: social sciences, graphic design, sound, poetry... Holding free entry for publishers and members of the audience alike, it is accessible to all, and offers a public visibility to a domain that is still sometimes badly known.

Forward-thinking, prosperous and audacious, the editorial approach of the participants in Salon Light reflects a desire to entirely rethink the printed object and its production. Limited editions and a real desire to make visible emergent and established artists: the establishment of a new definition of publishing lies at the core of the concerns of Salon Light #8.

Cneai (center of edition and of printed art), aware of the monotony that characterises the set «table+chair+publisher», innovates and proposes a new model of presentation of publications, that aims to transform the salon into an exhibition space dedicated to editorial practices. Each editor is invited to put together a display of their most recent editions. The architects Elisabeth Lemercier and Philippe Bona conceive a device composed of holsters and drawers and made of magnetic steel, which is proposed as an exhibition display.

« Conceived in the framework of the renovation of the Cneai, these devices are destined to protect the FMRA collection. As models that simultaneously organise and construct the space, they are real scenographic tools that are at the disposal of both the cneai and the artists in residence at the center. They are assembled with magnets, which offers surprising structural possibilities, while allowing for the extension of the displays. Through their doubling, these models make possible strategic dispositions of the objects, the display of the work and the presentation of paper matter in new forms.» Philippe Bona and Elisabeth Lemercier

Point Ephemere
200, quai de Valmy - Paris
Tuesday – Saturday, 2 PM – midnight

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