Catalogue

Martine Syms
Total

Editor: Éditions Lafayette Anticipations
Authors: Hannah Black, Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, Claudia Rankine
Graphic Designers: Studio Claus Due
Size: 30x40 cm
Number of pages: 258
Language: Bilingual French - English
Date of release: Oct 2024
Price: 39€
Published to coincide with Martine Syms’s exhibition, "Total" traces more than twenty years of her artistic practice, dating back to 2002.

The catalogue reveals the richness of a body of work in which literary, musical and cinematic references, cultural representations of Blackness, feminist history and reflections on spirituality and capitalism are interwoven. It features a conversation between the artist and the curator, as well as texts by Claudia Rankine and Hannah Black, which explore, respectively, the construction of Black identity and the astrological and introspective dimensions of Syms’s work.