captures editions

An artist’s book, a catalogue of a museum without walls, an account of a work under construction in response to a commission * in a former mining basin, Joëlle Tuerlinckx guides us through the studio’s archives, opens up the development of a thought process leading to the inventory of the M.M. (Museum of Memory) collection. Playing on the great classic and encompassing ‘all of J.T.’s work’, she presents ‘a museum by itself’.

Although the book was originally linked to ‘La Triangulaire de Cransac’, a monumental work installed in the small town in Aveyron, it also examines the evolution of the museum in its relationship with the artist and the book. Joëlle Tuerlinckx reminds us that if the museum is compared to a book because of its internal organisation, conversely a book can be compared to a museum because of its systematics and method of contemplating objects.

From the invitation of the 2/5 collection Francesc Ruiz decided to design a truck that folds in on itself, as if it were one of the Transformer robots or the image of the 1:1 scale bus of Maison Williams. The author's interest in the world of logistics, distribution and affections, makes him pose this intervention as if it were a letter of love and friendship. The author reproduces one of the trucks of the Spanish moving company Cariño, a name that besides being a toponym of a Galician town, can also be translated as affection or sweettie. The truck is driven by a yellow heart-shaped emoticon that is nothing more than a synthesis of the good things we receive by mail, a microdose of serotonin, a generic cupid's crush that serves to cheer up our lives in these strange times."