An evening with artist Jimmy Robert, for the launch of distinguish the limit from the edge, an artists’ book gathering facsimiles of previously unpublished works on paper by Robert and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. 

Edited by Jacob Korczynski, the book proposes an intergenerational dialogue between the late Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Jimmy Robert – a connection that emerges through their shared use of the formal strategy of the fold.
Robert’s work utilizes paper as a sculptural material, and his hand sometimes appears to shape the page; for Cha, the fold is present in her compositions enmeshing language through strategies of visual poetry. The possibility of overlaying one’s work with the other, emphasised by the book’s spiral-bound double spine, and reverse fold-outs, forges an intimacy, a shared sensibility, and an encounter with the corporeal.
In conversation with editor Jacob Korczynski, Robert refers to Fred Moten’s In The Break, stating, “Suddenly time falters. Words don’t go there. And if words don’t go there, then what does?”

distinguish the limit from the edge is published by Book Works, London. 

Born in Guadeloupe in 1975, Jimmy Robert currently lives and works between Paris and Berlin, where he teaches at UDK. On January 21st he will present the performance Draw the Line in Paris, as part of the Performances Dessin programme organized by Centre Pompidou.