Tiphanie Blanc
L’Encyclopédie des Images
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L’Encyclopédie des Images image
L’Encyclopédie des Images image
L’Encyclopédie des Images image
L’Encyclopédie des Images image
L’Encyclopédie des Images image
L’Encyclopédie des Images image

The Encyclopédie des Images by Pascal Doury (1956–2001) is an encyclopedia in which any attempt at classification seems doomed to fail and whose coherence is based on a very personal visual language and a systematic manufacturing process. The work remained unfinished at the time of his death, and was the subject of a complete inventory during the exhibition organized by Tiphanie Blanc and the students of the Work.Master of HEAD-Geneva at the CNEAI in 2017. On this occasion, the handouts bequeathed by Pascal Doury to the CNEAI were reassembled, folded and stapled, and nearly 200 additional booklets were produced. Today, this ambitious work constitutes more than 350 fanzines.

Pascal Doury was an artist, draftsman, painter and publisher active since the late 70’s and especially known for the publishing projects and exhibitions he realized with his sidekick Bruno Richard, notably the magazine Elles sont de Sortie. Having become a night watchman at the French daily newspaper Libération in the early 1990s, Doury, then emancipated from Richard, devoted his free time to several publishing projects such as the review Poézie Prolétèr or Patate. It was during this period that the Encyclopédie des images was born – self-produced booklets made with a photocopier and produced in very limited editions (about ten copies per issue) – from press images, proposals from guest artists and images collected from the many books and objects in his collection.

The whole is made up of images, texts and documents laid out and assembled in the form of simple A5 format notebooks. The booklets, then sold from hand to hand, were quickly sold out and become sought after. This paradox, between a rapid and very economical manufacturing process and the idea of the value of scarcity, is an integral part of the project, giving it the status of a work in progress, impossible to apprehend in its entirety and constantly being expanded. For the exhibition, a large part of the booklets has been reproduced as authentically as possible and are offered for consultation and reproduction to visitors, who are also invited to participate in the reactivation of the Encyclopedia process during three thematic workshops:

Friday 17.09.21, 18:00-20:00
Oélia Gouret, Making fanzines from one or more objects chosen by the participants

Saturday 18.09.21, 18:00-20:00
Raquel Dias, Hijacking pornographic images

Sunday 19.09.21, 11:00-13:00 
Guillaume Pilet & Tiphanie Blanc, Drawing and collage workshop for children 5-10 years old

Tiphanie Blanc is an editor, teacher, and cultural programmer based in Brussels since 2017. She created her own publishing house, L’Amazone, in 2020 during the pandemic. In parallel, she is active in the collective Wages For Wages Against, for which she organizes seminars and roundtables on the topic of precarious artistic work across Europe. Before that, she organized numerous projects in institutions (CNEAI, Châtou; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; Centre Pompidou, Paris; CAPC, Bordeaux…) and managed community spaces such as the contemporary art space Forde in Geneva between 2010 and 2012, and the bookstore La Dispersion which she founded in Geneva in 2013.

L’Encyclopédie des Images image
L’Encyclopédie des Images © Julien Gremaud
L’Encyclopédie des Images image
L’Encyclopédie des Images © Julien Gremaud
L’Encyclopédie des Images image
L’Encyclopédie des Images © Julien Gremaud
L’Encyclopédie des Images image
L’Encyclopédie des Images © Julien Gremaud
L’Encyclopédie des Images image
L’Encyclopédie des Images © Julien Gremaud