Jeremy Lecomte
Jeremy Lecomte is Maître de Conférences (Assistant Professor) at l’École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles and editor of Glass Bead, https://www.glass-bead. org/. 1. Richard Dawson, 2020 (Weird World, 2019)
After the sublime Peasant (2017), Richard Dawson strikes back this year with a beautifully crafted, lucidly dark yet realistically optimistic portrait of Brexit Britain … brilliant in both auditory and intellectual terms.
2. Céline Sciamma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Lilies Film, 2019)
Simply amongst the best films I’ve seen in recent years. It’s a film whose highly composed and controlled directing does not enclose but empower its characters and the story it tells – where history does not mean the past but a lively, powerful channel to transform the present.
3.Vincent Normand and Tristan Garcia (eds.). Theater, Garden, Bestiary. A Materialist History of Exhibitions. (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2019)
Where contemporary art looks into the mirror and discovers a totally different portrait than expected: navigating between natural history museums, salons, international exhibitions, seminal art shows, and anatomical theaters, the contributions gathered in this volume profoundly transform the common ground on which art history used to rest. A book that will no doubt become a landmark. Image caption and credit:
Cover of Vincent Normand and Vincent Garcia, Theater, Garden, Bestiary. A Materialist History of Exhibitions. Edited by Vincent Normand and Tristan Garcia. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2019. Copyright Sternberg Press.