Le tremblement des certitudes: Silvie Defraoui

A new perspective on artist Silvie Defraoui’s work of three decades across media.

Unexpected events in the present can in the long term affect our view of both the past and the future. This fundamental uncertainty characterizes the work of Silvie Defraoui, born in 1935, and also determines her Archives du Futur, the platform for artistic reflection she initiated in 1975 together with her late partner Chérif (1932-94).

This elegant book features some forty works that Defraoui has created sin...