Artist Josué Thomas presents I ♥ Paris (quand ce n’est pas la fashion week), a photographic meditation on the city beyond its most visible moments.
The project began without intention. Thomas photographed Paris, without the plan of making a book. Yet the result is a body of work that questions our assumptions: that Paris is animated, creative, and international only during Fashion Week. Moving from the United States to Europe, Thomas reflects on how changes shapes vision. It is in unfamiliar rhythms that artistic practice finds renewal. In this work, calm is not absence – it is voltage.
Creativity surfaces in intervals, between events, when habit gives way to perception. Thomas’s Paris is effervescent, even when the spotlight shifts elsewhere. This is not a rejection of Fashion Week, but its counterpoint • a reminder that creativity exceeds calendars.
166 pages, printed in Paris, limited edition of 100 copies
The launch will take place on Saturday October 4, from 6 PM to 9 PM, at ART THAT KILLS Records, GALLERY DEPT’s space in the Marais, 80 rue des Gravilliers, 75003 Paris.
For the occasion, the space will host a special pop-up featuring a curated selection of new and vintage books in dialogue with Thomas’s work, alongside the exclusive tee featuring the typography from the publication.
The pop-up will remain open to the public daily from October 5 to 10, from 10 AM to 7 PM.