Objets-récits (Taiwan), 2026

Presented in the exhibition Constellations, curated by Émile Kirsch in the former house of Stéphane Mallarmé, “Objets-récits” takes the form of a first body of research developed in Taiwan around found objects, memory, and the narratives that ordinary objects can carry. Since 2013, “Objets-récits” has brought together elements collected through travels and movements. Removed from their original use or context, these fragments become supports for a form of visual writing. Each element contributes to composing a sensitive cartography of a place. The objects presented here were collected in Taiwan in 2026 as part of the Villa Formose – New Writing Residency.

This stage of the project is shaped by Édouard Glissant’s thinking on Relation and the archipelago. Relation refers to a way of being grounded in exchanges, circulations, and encounters between cultures, without hierarchy or a single center. The archipelago, in turn, offers a vision of the world composed of singularities connected to one another, where each element preserves its identity while participating in an open and dynamic whole.

This approach allows correspondences, narratives, and forms of coexistence to emerge from the collected elements.