.Presentation of the school - Nîmes

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E.S.B.A.N. teaching staff
Clémentine MÉLOIS
Born in 1980..
Qualified at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Parisin
2004.
‘I was born in a family that had always made books. Not knowing
how to write, I already made some with small pots of glue and
crayons. There are several reasons for this monomaniac decision
to continue along this pathway. I turned what held my attention,
surprised, amused or annoyed me into book form. Ideas came to
me in the form of pages that turned. I don’t like it when everything
is ”delivered” in one go, and books form the ideal medium for me:
first because a book is multiple and can therefore be distributed to a
large number of people, and second because it obeys a number of
rules and codes, a tradition enabling the unlimited varying of procedures,
techniques and forms: none of my books is like another, but
they all nonetheless match our image of the different categories of
traditional publishing.’
‘Bittersweet irony, sometimes a little impertinence, deep waters
that it is better not to stir up, tenderness and a bite, a whole that
should be addressed slowly and left to soak in.’
Michel Salsmann
vachezebree.fr
Second-hand bookseller’s display case
presenting all the works of the ‘collections de la vache zébrée’. 2004..