Elsa Werth, Voyelles, 2023_view1

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Voyelles à colorier [Vowels to color]
2023, Paris : artist edition. Black and white print, 8 pages, 26,2 x 21 cm, unlimited edition
>>> The Vowels to color is a coloring book made with the vowels A.E.I.O.U.Y as an homage to the famous poem by Arthur Rimbaud.



Elsa Werth, Global Warming Coloring Book, 2023, p.01-02

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Global Warming Coloring Book
2023. Paris : artist edition, black and white print, 16 pages, 29,7 x 21 cm, unlimited edition
>>> The urgent issue of global warming is raised by this children's coloring book. As you flip through the pages, the suns to be colored become increasingly larger, symbolizing the heat that continues to rise.



Elsa Werth, Abracadabra (book), 2022_couv

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Abracadabra!
2022. Edited by JAP Edition, Brussels. Black and white print, 48 pages, 18 x 11 cm, edition of 200 copies
>>> Anagrams of the magic spell.



Elsa Werth, Meeting Point, 2021, book view couv

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Meeting Point
2022. Edited by Spvie, Suresnes. Black and white offset, 88 pages, 19 x 12 cm, edition of 200 copies




Elsa Werth, Negociation, 2021, vue 1

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Negotiation
2021. Paris : artist edition, color offset print, 24 pages, 29,7 x 21 cm, edition of 150 copies
>>> Taken out of context, the corporate language specific to marketing and management techniques is shown for what it is: empty and equivalent.



Forsythia Lilac Geranium_web

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Forsythia Lilac ande Geranium
2021. Edited by Incertain Sens, Rennes. Black and white print, 248 pages, 29,7 x 21 cm, 800 copies
>>> A book-exhibition that brings together the practice of three artists (Raffaella Della Olga, Camila Oliveira Fairclough and Elsa Werth) from the contemporary publishing scene around the figure of Mary Ellen Solt (1920-2007), an American artist whose works of concrete poetry enter into graphic and conceptual resonance with the three artists' own publications.



Elsa Werth, El Mundo, 2020_view 1

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El Mundo (Lunes 9 de Marzo de 2020)
Paris : artist edition. Color offset, 56 pages, 26,5 x 37 cm
>>> The daily newspaper «El Mundo» of March 9, 2020 is erased so as to reveal only the names of the countries mentioned in the articles.
The meaning of «El Mundo» shifts to become the title of an unexpected atlas shaped by the latest news.



Elsa Werth, Die Welt, 2020_view1

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Die Welt (Mittwoch, 29. Januar 2020)
Paris : artist edition. Color offset, 24 pages, 50,5 x 35,5 cm
>>> The daily newspaper «Die Welt» of January 29, 2020 is erased so as to reveal only the names of the countries mentioned in the articles.
The meaning of «Die Welt» shifts to become the title of an unexpected atlas shaped by the latest news.



Elsa Werth, Un jour dans le monde (4oct.2019)_8

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Un jour dans le Monde (4 octobre 2019)
Edited by Centre des livres d’artistes, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche. Black and white offset, 32 pages, 47,5 x 33 cm, unlimited edition
>>> The daily newspaper «Le Monde» of October 4, 2019 is erased so as to reveal only the names of the countries mentioned in the articles.
The meaning of « Le Monde » shifts to become the title of an unexpected atlas shaped by the latest news.



Elsa Werth A Land, 2019, vue 1

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A Land
2019. Edited by mfc-michèle didier, Paris. 99 x 69 cm sheet, printed on 70g white offset paper then folded as a map, edition of 60 copies and 15 artist's proofs.
>>> This list is made from a «collage»: all the common nouns beginning with the letter A, in alphabetical order, to which the suffix «land» has been systematically added. The list opens with Aland, «A» taken as a simple letter but also as an indefinite article, A+Land then becomes Land, taken in its broadest sense : all land. Abackland,Abaftland,Abandonland, Abandonmentland, Abandonmentland, Abaseland, Abasementland, (...) Azureland.
Built on the same structure as the names of real countries such as Switzerland, Greenland, Holland, Poland, these 1349 terms, although fictional, make sense.They bring together different metaphorical registers that alternately evoke freedom, oppression, absurdity, triviality, abstraction, exoticism.Oscillating between promises and fears, these terms echo current events and question the nature and very meaning of our relationship with the territories.



Elsa Werth, Out of the Blue, 2020-view4

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Out of the Blue
2020. Paris : artist edition, adhesive tape on paper 80g, 32 pages, 15 x 10 cm, edition of 10 unique copies.



Elsa Werth, Qualite Securite, 2020, view_1

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Qualité Sécurité
202O. Edited by Adhex Technologies, Chenôve. Black and white digital print on paper, 28 pages, 9,5 x 13,1 cm, unlimited edition
>>> This edition is built from the notes recorded by employees of the Adhex Technologies factory on the sign-out sheet at the end of their working hours. Each frame, initially representing a schedule grid, is laid out to reveal faces whose expressions serve as a spontaneous graphic account of how the tasks performed by the workers unfolded.



Elsa Werth, Courtoisie, 2021_1

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Courtoisie
2021. Paris : artist edition, color offset, 24 pages, 14 x 20 cm, edition of 100 copies
>>> The word CORDIALEMENT is broken down letter by letter to create patterns on each page of the book.
Thus, a conventional formula is transformed into a pictorial object.



Elsa Werth, Politeness, 2020_view2

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Politeness
2020. Paris : artist edition, color offset, 16 pages, 14 x 20 cm, edition of 100 copies
>>> The word SINCERELY is broken down letter by letter to create patterns on each page of the book.
Thus, a conventional formula is transformed into a pictorial object.



Elsa Werth, Greetings, 2020_view1

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Greetings
2020. Paris : artist edition, color offset, 16 pages, 14 x 20 cm, edition of 100 copies
>>> The word REGARDS is broken down letter by letter to create patterns on each page of the book.
Thus, a conventional formula is transformed into a pictorial object.



Elsa Werth, Formule de politesse, 2019_vue2

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Formule de politesse
2019. Paris : artist edition, color offset, 12 pages, 14 x 20 cm, edition of 100 copies
>>> The word MERCI (THANK YOU) is broken down letter by letter to create patterns on each page of the book.
Thus, a conventional formula is transformed into a pictorial object.



Elsa Werth, Original soldé, 2018, édition de 100 ex_2

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Original soldé
2018. Paris : artist edition, color offset, 36 pages, 13,5 x 21 cm, edition of 100 copies
>>> A set of short texts composed from administrative rubber-stamps.An (unexpected) attempt to find some poetry in a world frozen by its regulations.



Elsa Werth, ‘Sans eclat’3

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Sans éclat
2015. Paris : artist edition, digital color print, 20 pages, 24 x 16 cm, edition of 100 copies
>>> Made from colorful promotional materials.



Elsa Werth, Calendrier 2023 verso detail

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2023 Calendar
Paris : artist edition, double-sided print, 14 x 18 cm



Elsa Werth, 2022 Calendar, 10 x 15 cm

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2022 Calendar
Paris : artist edition, offest print on 360g card, 10 x 15 cm



Elsa Werth, Calendrier 2021, recto2021 Calendar
Paris : artist edition, offest print on 360g card, 10 x 15 cm



Elsa Werth, 2020, vue1

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2020 Calendar
Edited by Adhex Technologies, Chenôve. Color offset, 28 pages, 12,5 x 20 cm, edition 300
>>> 2020 calendar. A set of 12 short texts (1 per month) made of rubber-stamp formulas.
The play with impossible dates or actions that are not organized in a logical sense is a way of stressing the meaningless of running after productivity.