Oulipo Extended #1
Oulipo Extended #1
series of screen prints / Berlin, 2026
This project is, above all, an exercise in composition, inspired by the Oulipo literary movement, founded in 1960 in Paris. It is an informal group of writers and mathematicians who create literary works based on strict yet playful rules and constraints. They believe that the structural rules they impose on themselves stimulate creative freedom rather than stifling it.
This series began with four elements already present in my studio, each possessing different graphic qualities, which are here juxtaposed with six other abstract elements, such as the line, the circle, the square, the rectangle and the triangle.
It is a kind of collage, which can be endlessly varied.
I see a parallel here with my practice of instant composition in my performance work, such as “Compose and Re-compose” (2017), “Tentatives à la limite” (2019) or with the Ateliers LAB carried out with Les actionnaires since 2019.
Here, I am once again using screen printing, not as a reproduction technique but as a means of creating variations.
