Chloé Delaume

Perceptions

November 6, 2012

Novel

96 pages

170 × 210 mm

15 €

978-2-8480-9121-2

Co-written with François Alary and Ophélie Klère

Creators of the Dévastée brand, Ophélie Klère and François Alary conceived Perceptions with the writer Chloé Delaume.
Made from forty-six graphite drawings and textual fragments, Perceptions is a poetic and intimate drift where the cemetery becomes a landscape.
Through the eroded stones, statues and dry grass, a female voice questions her own relationship to death and records what she feels in a deceptively innocent way. The real, captured in a quasi-photographic way, sometimes disintegrates to the point of abstraction in the visuals, according to the sinuosities of the narrative. For if the graves here smile, it is perhaps because death knows how to be luminous.

The author

Chloé Delaume was born in 1973. She has been writing in many forms and media since the late 1990s. She has written nearly thirty books as if they were experiments: novels, poetic fragments, plays, essays, self-fiction. She is fond of hybrid objects and the mixing of genres: a novel illustrated by a video game (Corpus Simsi), the hijacking of a board game (Certainement pas), fan fiction in which you are the hero (La nuit je suis Buffy Summers). But also diary of a home performance (J’habite dans la télévision), dystopia (Les sorcières de la République). If her first novel, Les mouflettes d’Atropos, was tinged with radical feminism, she later focused on the issue of sisterhood by publishing Mes bien chères sœurs and the collective work Sororité.
Winner of the Prix Décembre 2001 for Le cri du sablier, she was a resident at the Villa Médicis in 2010-2011 and won the Prix Médicis 2020 with Le cœur synthétique.