Special Limited Edition [55]
Available Institutional Copies [1/8]
Open Spread: 4” x 12”
Closed: 4” x 6”
55 pages
ISBN 978-1-7383796-3-7
with words by Elodie Dérond
Edited by Afi Venessa Appiah, Elodie Dérond, Tania Doumbe Fines
Design by Elodie Dérond, Tania Doumbe Fines
Printed at Letra Muerta Inc., Brooklyn
Hand-bound with J7 Studios, Brooklyn
Materiality:
Prepress and Xerox printing on vellum, metallic and linen papers.
Saddle stitch sewn binding with Japanese wood veneer covers.
La Gestuelle du Songe emerges from continuous exchange with ibiyanε, a propulsive and generative rhythm that pulses through our shared and respective practices.
Since Elodie Dérond and Tania Doumbe Fines created their six inaugural pieces for my first exhibition and publication, Black Experience isn’t a Spectacle (2020), ibiyanε has been deeply tied to the spoken and written word. Each creation is an insertion of archives. Research and poetry in form; each curve, a whispered memory.
Through the sacred act of connection — with oneself, with others, with the land, or with the divine — ibiyanε; meaning “to know one another”, becomes a praxis rooted in comprehension, reverence, and the transformation of a future we dare to dream.
With works by:
Alioune Diop
Felwine Sarr
Rasheedah Phillips
René Ménil
Michel Vennetier
Suzanne Césaire
Alioune Diop
Felwine Sarr
Rasheedah Phillips
René Ménil
Michel Vennetier
Suzanne Césaire
Hailing from Cameroon and Martinique respectively, Tania Doumbe Fines and Elodie Dérond are the creative duo behind Ibiyanε. Named for the Batanga word “to know one another,” the design studio’s guiding principle is to nurture curiosity between people and cultures at a fundamental level, driven by a belief in the endless world of possibilities that conversations can open.