The first volume of the new collection Soleil mineur [Minor Sun] is published on the occasion of the exhibition The Shudder Palace.
It explores how we are shaped, often unconsciously, by the images that surround us and those we inherit. Unravelling like a fictional architecture, part archive, part theatre, part ruin, The Shudder Palace is inhabited by images that feel equally familiar and strangely displaced, as though remembered from dreams or recovered from incomplete histories. Throughout the exhibition, bodies appear in states of performance, ritual, stillness, resistance, intimacy, and transformation. Identity and photography alike emerge not as something fixed, but as unstable matter, continuously rehearsed, inherited, undone and remade. Photography is approached less as evidence than as a haunted material, capable of preserving traces while also revealing loss, distance, and disappearance. The participating artists work through processes of fragmentation, repetition, reenactment, layering, and reconstruction, reclaiming and reopening images to new meanings and narratives.
The publication features an original essay by Danaé Panchaud and Paloma Jones Revaud, alongside a presentation of the 16 international artists participating in the project, reproductions of artworks and exhibition views, an A2 poster and some graphic objects.
