Architecture is frozen music #

The project has been selected by AMBruno Rythmn project

Collection
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, DE
British Library, UK
HMOKA Museum, KR
PrintRoom, NL
Tate Museum & Archive, UK
The New York Public Library, NYC
National Art Library, V&A Museum, UK
WMA reference library, HK

For over ten years, Catugier has been creating analogies between music and modern architecture under the project Architecture Is Frozen Music, gathering photographs taken during residencies around the world (Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe). In 2020, she produced a digital book for Editions Naima that is accompanied by variations of book-objects, offering through their form games of perception. Architecture Is Frozen Music# evokes the idea of a score, a musical notation where the lines indicate the pitch of the sound. The structure of the book is freely inspired by the book “Lines: A Brief History” (Routledge, 2016) in which anthropologist Tim Ingold develops the idea that “a study of men and things is a study of the lines of which they are made”.

For her 3rd publication in collaboration with the einBuch.haus gallery (Berlin), Catugier focuses on her latest residencies in Estonia (2022) and Bolivia (in progress). This edition features a two-axis hand-binding, allowing the 16 different sized pages to overlap. By superimposing and crossing lines, the possible variations of collages are multiplied.

Architecture is Frozen Music #
Laure Catugier

einBuch.haus, 2023 

Folded object 
16 pages of b&w photographs
Cover: silkscreen black on 300gr Bogen Graukarton
Interior pages: riso print on 170gr recycling paper Black thread

Concept, graphic design and image credit: Laure Catugier
Handbound by artists
Silkscreen: Novack Siebdruck
Risograph: Riso Drucken3000

Signed and numbered 
Edition of 100 + 3 AP

Exhibition Architecture is Frozen Music
March. 3 - May. 7, 2022