Title: Odds and Ends
Artist: Marie Quéau
Area Books, 2021
Design by Bureau Kayser
Hardcover with silver-printed dust jacket
220 x 280 mm
180 pages
Poem by Amélie Lucas-Gary
ISBN: 9782957586202
“Odds and Ends” considers the end as guiding principle in everything around us, and delineates a portrait of an abandoned, still-smoking Earth. Marie Quéau has set out to explore lands and terrains that might be vectors for her anxieties about the future. She often undertakes this work as an obituary for our planet, harking to its accidents and its slow collapse. This investigation progresses as a hopscotch of sorts, one place immediately leading to the next. Over five years, wind, earth, and fire have guided her in piecing together this fatal fable. Time has been intentionally frozen to muffle life. This series is, in her eyes, a poem without men.
- From the publisher’s website
“Odds and Ends” considers the end as guiding principle in everything around us, and delineates a portrait of an abandoned, still-smoking Earth. Marie Quéau has set out to explore lands and terrains that might be vectors for her anxieties about the future. She often undertakes this work as an obituary for our planet, harking to its accidents and its slow collapse. This investigation progresses as a hopscotch of sorts, one place immediately leading to the next. Over five years, wind, earth, and fire have guided her in piecing together this fatal fable. Time has been intentionally frozen to muffle life. This series is, in her eyes, a poem without men.
- From the publisher’s website
