a minima

white books empty books or books of little few words few images often few pages a minima brings together works that border on silence and shift the practice of reading. Born from a private collection, enriched by a few loans, the exhibition freely traverses one hundred and fifty years of publishing, from 1876 to today. founding shadows — mallarmé, duchamp — surface there. but it is above all the conceptual gesture, which appeared in the second half of the 20th century and was extended by concrete poetry and the artist's book, that unfolds there. notably presented are works by more than a hundred creators including amélie de beaufort, barbara schmidt-heins, bernard villers, bruno munari, daniel gustav cramer, elisabeth tonnard, elsa werth, giovanni anselmo, george maciunas, herman de vries, irma blank, jiří valoch, jonathan monk, john cage, josé luis castillejo, kimsooja, marcel broodthaers, micah lexier, michel françois, monika droste and guy rombouts, nathalie czech, peter downsbrough, raphaël van lerberghe, sara mackillop, simon cutts… here, the book does not tell: it suggests, it holds back, it resists. each work, in its simplicity, opens a space. reading then becomes an attentive, moving, critical, sometimes subversive act.