En Suspens Rainoff Alex Schweder & Ward Shelley

Alex Schweder & Ward Shelley

making each book its own unique work of art

The photographer is Man Ray

Stones are used to throw up barriers and throw at adversaries

These playful photographic works resonate with the historical visual traditions of alchemy

En Suspens Rainoff Alex Schweder & Ward ShelleyPublished at the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Le Bal, Paris, this publication is a poetic, abstract, fragile attempt to translate something of our times: being in a state of suspension. It subverts the idea of a traditional catalogue to transcribe this intangible and indefinable state through a continuous stream of black and white images. Conceived by Bartolom Sanson, Diane Dufour and Julie Hraut, the book borrows the simplicity of black