“Mal-à-dire” is a book that encompasses an entire world. A book that not only brings together the visual artist’s research but also (re)introduces the rhizomatic breadth of her artistic creation and a practice that continues to this day. Anne Mars designs books the same way she draws: with corrections that are traces leading to contemplation. “Mal-à-dire” are books, a kind of “incunabula”—the cradles of an active and creative reflection on illness and the unspeakable, on suffering and silence, on signs, languages, and parasitic typographies, on words that cannot be spoken but can be read.

“Mal-à-dire” maps the artist’s imaginative world and opens up a terrain that embraces the dialogue between visual art and design, typography and drawing, installation and performance. “Mal-à-dire” is a free form that reveals the full breadth of an artistic practice that has no end but which, once printed, allows one—if not to grasp it, then at least to roam through it.

R. Eyme