The art marathon has just begun, and Paris in on fire. Come dry your tears and feed your feelings at our special bookstore at Paris Internationale* ! For this year's edition we have teamed up with artist Thomas Jeppe for a full immersive bookish experience involving corporate tables and incorporated worlds of interiors (with pig masks).

AND: a series of wonderful events is planned for your intellectual pleasure. Mostly happening in the evening at our headquarters, 7 rue Jarry.

See full schedule below ❤︎

Wednesday 18  Pippa Garner, Act Like You Know Me
7pm at After 8 Books

with Fiona Alison Duncan, Maurin Dietrich, Gina Merz, Shola von Reinhold, Mona Varichon, Fanny Gonella and HIT.

The first comprehensive monograph and critical survey of American artist Pippa Garner, Act Like You Know Me surveys fifty years of her radical and transdisciplinary art practice, from the late 1960s to the early 2010s, through ca. 400 photographs, illustration, ephemera, and original writings. Encompassing Garner's most iconic works, from the Backwards Car to the Half-Suit, alongside never-before-seen photographs and ephemera, Act Like You Know Me serves to introduce a highly-influential, under-recognized artist whose uncompromising approach to life and practice has allowed her to interact with the worlds of illustration, editorial, television, and art without ever becoming beholden to them.

Published on the occasion of Pippa Garner's travelling exhibition at Kunstverein München, Kunsthalle Zürich, 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine and White Columns (NYC).
Edited by Maurin Dietrich and Fiona Alison Duncan. Published by Bierke, Berlin

Thursday 19 ‘Poems’ by Zoë Lund
7pm at After 8 Books / 9.30pm Cinéma Le Brady

With Manon Lutanie and Stephanie LaCava
Poems presents four unpublished poems by American writer and actress Zoë Lund (1962– 1999), written in the 1980s. An incandescent voice emerges, revealing the might, sincerity, and precision of her expression, as well as her vulnerability and defiance in the face of death. A reading will take place at the bookstore, followed by a screening at Cinéma Le Brady, two blocks away, at 9:30. We’ll screen ’Hot Ticket’ (96 seconds), directed by Zoë Lund in 1993, and a newly restored copy of ’Bad Lieutenant’ (1992, 96 minutes, with French subtitles), directed by Abel Ferrara and written by Zoë Lund, who also stars in it.

Published by Éditions Lutanie and Small Press.

Friday 20 Meriem Bennani. Life on the CAPS
3 pm at PARIS INTERNATIONALE*

The final chapter in her film trilogy of the same name, Life on the CAPS is set in a supernatural, dystopian future surrounding a fictional island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The work is rooted in Bennani’s research and reflections on the histories of island societies, biotechnology, and vernacular music.

Life on the CAPS is Meriem Bennani’s first comprehensive monograph and includes essays by writers Emily LaBarge and Elvia Wilk, alongside conversations with Omar Berrada, Fatima Al Qadiri, Amal Benzekri, Aziz Bouyabrine, and Bidoun.

Published by the Renaissance Society and Bidoun.

Friday 20 David Wojnarowicz, Dear Jean Pierre
7 pm at After 8 Books

with Jean Pierre Delage

Dear Jean Pierre collects David Wojnarowicz’s transatlantic correspondence to his Parisian lover Jean Pierre Delage between 1979 and 1982. Included with these writings are postcards, drawings, xeroxes, photographs, collages, flyers, ephemera, and contact sheets that showcase some of the artist’s iconic images and work. Wendy Olsoff from Ppow gallery will be in conversation with Jean-Pierre Delage.

Published by Primary Information, NY

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*PARIS INTERNATIONALE // find us on the 3rd floor !
17 rue du Faubourg Poissonnière, 75009 Paris
¨ free entrance for all ¨