Talk (in French) with the artist Jérémie Gindre to mark the publication of his book Pyramides de la Pampa by art&fiction, in conversation with Mirjana Farkas, research officer at Bibliothèque de Genève. This event will also be an opportunity to view original maps and documents from the Bibliothèque’s collections.
Pyramides de la Pampa is a book of images and text taking the form of an atlas. It was written and illustrated using documents drawn, for the most part, from the collections of the Bibliothèque de Genève. These historical sources have been reworked to construct the fragmented narrative of a foreign world, rekindling a taste for mystery and the unknown. A sort of grand journey through the library, this atlas guides us through the geographical imaginations of an era and a society, to better highlight the power of fiction. The maps, diagrams, comparative tables, vignettes and advertisements present us with familiar territories which yet seem here to be discovered as if for the first time, dominated by an exoticism that is both alluring and unsettling. Promising wonders and marvels as much as risks and perils, Pyramides de la Pampa describes and recounts a world that never existed, except in books.
