La plume plongea la tête
Handmade and self published art book.
First Edition of 50 copies signed & numbered
Photography and design © sara palmieri
105 x 150 mm / Semi-transparent soft cover.
Enclosed in a handmade cardboard box.
Paper: Fedrigoni Freelife Vellum White gr.120
Date of publication: 2015
‘La plume plongea la tête’ explores the concept of dualism of life, among the human search of the absolute invisible to the eyes, and the reality as we see it. Inspired by the writings and the symbolisms of Mallarmé, 'la plume plongea la tête' is a sentence drawn by his work 'Herodiade': the feather (la plume) reminds the fragility of human life in its constant floating around a virtual thin line, a fracture, showing its two faces of light and obscurity.
The book aims to translate words, rhythm and symbols in a three-dimensional space where images find different connections, reading directions and ever-changing meanings. The system of the book allows to discover the pictures inside it step by step, as well as its mechanics and content: some images are hidden, you discover them later. The reading is subjective, it can be vertical or horizontal, as in Mallarmé's poetry, and the approach to the images can be various and mutable, as the message that arrives. The whole work of Mallarmé is aimed at a single search: to experiment 'new arrangements', using entirely the physiognomy of the words, the syntactic juxtapositions, the sounds of the sentence.
"The absolute has no borders, it is horizontal, it's vertical (...). It is the empty, the essence of the reality purified of the rationality and the bonds, it's a white page. In the white, in the silence, it's possible to graze the absolute one."
(Stéphane Mallarmé)
AWARDS
Premio Marco Bastianelli 2016_Best italian self-published book_winner
Self Publish Riga 2016, Riga Latvia_shortlisted
8+20 books for The Book’s Space, Fotografia Festival 2015, Rome_selected
Call for Books Encontros da Imagem International Photography Festival, Braga_shortlisted
EXHIBITIONS
Pontremoli Foto Festival 2019
Castelnuovo Fotografia Festival 2016, Italy
Author Book Award Exhibition, Les rencontres d'Arles 2016
'The white gloves' corner at LeBoudoir2.0, Le Local, Arles
Self Publish Riga 2016 Exhibition, Riga Latvia
Little Big Press: The Book’s Space Exhibition, Fotografia Festival 2015, Rome
El Book Fair, Encontros da Imagem International Photography Festival, Braga
PUBLICATIONS
Blacklie II - Limes+Obscura
gabrielacendoya
3/3 The Book's Space Interviews
The First Edition of the book is SOLD OUT.
Few copies of the Special Edition still available.
La plume plongea la tête special edition
Special Edition of 15 copies signed & numbered.
Photography and design © sara palmieri
Handmade cardboard box 120 x 165 mm with the book, 1 folded A3 poster
printed on Fedrigoni Freelife Vellum White gr.120 paper, 2 Fine Art Prints on cotton paper.
Date of publication: September 2016
Please note: variants of the special edition may differ.
To order please contact: info@sarapalmieri.com
Bookshops: Leporello
