Jean-Luc Moulène (born 1955) is one of the most important artists in France today. This book presents a new reading of his work from 1992 to 2008.

This book, the first critical study of Jean-Luc Moulène’s work, brings together leading scholars to examine the artist’s diverse aesthetic strategies and interests in the relationships between social and political arenas and systems and orders, including geometry, mathematics, social sciences, and human behavior. Featured essays also examine Moulène’s theoretical and playful inquiries into the plasticity of materials and the ways we see and understand both still and moving images.

Although Jean-Luc Moulène is primarily known for his photographic practice, his work on objects has now taken a central position. His use of technologies borrowed from industrial design combined with a careful experimentation of materials allows for the creation of works whose relevance is paramount. Metaphorically, these objects evaluate the common space, a place of tension where individual desires, political constraints, and social conventions intersect.

Published on the occasion of Jean-Luc Moulène’s exhibition at Centre Pompidou, Paris, October 19, 2016 – February 20, 2017.

In the four colors of the newspaper
with a four-color pen
and a good sense of abstraction
you get a bit of the world. (Jean-Luc Moulène)

40 newspaper clippings (revised by Jean-Luc Moulène), facsimiles, manually inserted into the body of the book
Concept: Jean-Luc Moulène
Print run 400, signed/numbered;