Let's take pics we can never post Marine Neuilly, Thomas Lélu [SIGNED]

Size :  160 x 215 mm    

Hardcover, 160 pages

color, black and white

published by 0fr.

※Signed by the artist

※As the books were opened in Paris, there may be variations in condition.

A collaborative collection published by 0fr. featuring Parisian photographer/artist Marine Neuilly and text artist Thomas Lélu. Based on the Polaroid photographs Marine has continuously released under the name "INITIALES M.N.", Thomas overlays humorous and sometimes incisive phrases, lightly illuminating contemporary visual culture that sways between analog and digital, private memory and networked society. Marine's Polaroids are soft yet raw snapshots that preserve "the touch of that moment" which cannot be captured in a studio or on social media. To these, Thomas's accompanying words, with their humor, venom, bewilderment, or poetry, imbue the photos with new meaning as "unpostable images." This work is a new "dialogue between photography and words" for the post-digital age, where the spontaneity unique to Polaroids intersects with the light critical edge of language.

Marine Neuilly

Parisian DJ/solo artist Marine Neuilly. From her childhood days of creating mixtapes on cassette to her punk activities with the band  Les Plastiscines, she has always crossed genre boundaries with a keen and eclectic ear. Her DJ sets are a kaleidoscopic journey, freely moving from Daft Punk to Nelly, to Outkast.
They are sprinkled with elements of rock, French variety, funk, disco, film soundtracks, and pop culture. Her charismatic stage presence has also attracted attention in the fashion world, leading her to play for houses such as Chanel, Dior, Prada, and Miu Miu. Vanity Fair France describes her as "the most current Marine Neuilly, an artist establishing her own unique sound identity."

Thomas Lélu

A Paris-based artist, writer, and art director. He continues to express himself with both humor and critical insight, traversing words and images. His handwritten phrases and short texts span diverse media, from social media to gallery spaces, books, and print works, lightly illuminating contemporary visual culture and communication quirks. With a background in graphic design, his activities are wide-ranging, including writing fiction and essays, curating, and producing video and photography. As seen in his early work "Manuel de la Photo Ratée (Manual of Failed Photography)", the gaze towards "deviation" and "imperfection" is a theme that runs through his entire production. In recent years, through exhibitions at his own gallery space "La Cité" and solo exhibitions and projects both domestically and internationally, he continues to explore "unseen emotions and contradictions" in modern society by re-editing fragments of daily life, words, and images. Thomas Lélu's work re-examines the rhythm of information we unconsciously consume and the nature of language in the SNS era, offering new perspectives with light humor.