This new project is part of a series of recent works where the text is incorporated as a central problem in the image. Similar in constructive system as Still life / Style leaf in the use of images of wrinkled pages, in this case I chose the book Exercices de Style (Exercises in Style) by the french writer Raymond Queneau. In the book, Quenau tells a brief story of an everyday life situation that happens in a bus, and then, he re-writes it ninety-nine times, in ninety-nine different ways, each in a radically different style, as a sonnet, an opera, in slang, and with many more permutations.

I have conceived three different series, made with different media, which are wool felt, paper –both hand-cut– and embroidery. Each one of the pieces reproduces a different version of Exercices de Style: five stories in felt, eight stories in paper and six stories in hand-made embroidery.

Just as Queneau uses lenguaje in many different ways in his stories, in my “exercises” I present different approaches to the images of wrinkled pages of the book; each material and technical variation offers a new sense and a new way to understand that “the form is content”.

Captions of the pieces

Page 32
Exercices de Style. Anagrammes / Ejercicios de Estilo. Anagramas
Photographic collage; 64,8 x 46,8 cm
2015

Page 33 y 34
Exercices de Style. Distinguo / Ejercicios de Estilo. Distinguo
Photographic collage; 64,8 x 78,4 cm
2015

Page 35
Exercices de Style. Homéoptotes / Ejercicios de Estilo. Homeoteleutones
Photographic collage; 64,8 x 46,8 cm
2015

Page 36 y 37
Exercices de Style. Lettre officielle / Ejercicios de Estilo. Carta oficial
Photographic collage; 64,8 x 78,4 cm
2015

Page 38
Exercices de Style. Prière d’insérer / Ejercicios de Estilo. Propaganda editorial
Photographic collage; 64,8 x 46,8 cm
2015

Page 39
Exercices de Style. Onomatopées / Ejercicios de Estilo. Onomatopeyas
Photographic collage; 64,8 x 46,8 cm
2015

Page 40 y 41
Exercices de Style. Analyse logique / Ejercicios de Estilo. Análisis lógico
Photographic collage; 64,8 x 78,4 cm
2015

Page 42, 43 y 44
Exercices de Style. Insistance / Ejercicios de Estilo. Insistencia
Photographic collage; 64,8 x 110 cm
2015