Epistolary collages
Paper, leather, paint, metal pins, photographs, since 2019.![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a89219ec943eba98f058e9d2e5c0c1e8716943ffc897093cebf12299ab7c0dc9/_MG_5967.jpeg)
An on-going series of artworks that document and aestheticise Nemer’s written correspondence with individuals of importance to his research. The collages take inspiration from seventeenth century quodlibet paintings, a “[f]anciful type of trompe l'oeil of oddments, often showing letters, paper-knives, playing-cards, ribbons, and scissors, in apparently accidental array, painted on walls, etc…” The collages mimic this style to create three-dimensional arrangements of paper ephemera from the epistolary life of Nemer’s research: handwritten letters, envelopes, photographs, bookmarks, e-mails, postcards, and book pages, to stage acts of writing between him and Tom Waugh, Elisabeth Lebovici, Matthias Herrmann, and Abdellah Taïa, among others.
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Photos by Bastien Pourtout