Chimères ; figures de l'effondrement, is a plastic essay.
This research is based on the hypothesis that the Chimera is a resurgent figure in the landscape of contemporary art, and this at a time in our history when discourses of the world ending are numerous, but rarely pictured.

The book is structured around various utterances, along with a large beastiary that seems to fill this lack of representation.
In this way, over the pages, links are forged between creatures who are temporally far apart, demonstrating that this association with collapse is inherent to periods of troubles.

In the end, the Chimera draws the outlines of a world in mutation, formalizing in its flesh hypotheses for living in ruins. It proves to be fertile ground for different narrative modes, like so many alternative paths to be imagined and explored.





CHIMÈRES, FIGURES DE L’EFFONDREMENT
Master thesis 
2024
320 p.
Thesis written as part of the "finalité approfondie", in the Drawing option at École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre, in collaboration with the architecture department at Université Libre de Bruxelles, under the supervision of Aleksandra Chaushova and Kiran Katara

Text and ceramics
Barbara Leclercq

Book layout and binding 
Juliette Amigues

Fonts 
Basteleur by Keussel. Distributed by velvetyne.fr. 
Neco by Indian Type Foundry. Distributed by FontshareTM. 
Epilogue by Tyler Finck et Etcetera Type Company. Distributed by Google Fonts.

Paper
Fabriano Colore Nero 200 g/m2 
SUEDEL® LUXE Royal 240 g/m2 
Munken Lynx Smooth White 100 g/m2

Printed in June 2024, on the ComColor press at ENSAV La Cambre, Brussels