This monograph dedicated to the work of Dector and Dupuy presents the density of the artists\u2019 research\u00a0into their subject, the city, its improvisatory spaces and its escape routes. \u201cDuring the twenty years\u00a0that they have worked together, Dector and Dupuy\u2019s investigations address the tracks and marks of conflict,\u00a0the expressing of demands and the wild writings that they find in public places \u2013 on walls, but also on roads \u2013\u00a0and in every nook and cranny of the city(…) Both artists create exhibitions, guided tours and diverse printed\u00a0media from these gatherings.1\u201d<\/p>\n
Thinking through the conception of the book led the artists to imagine an atypical way of classifying\u00a0their works in a non-chronological manner. The book became a space of creation where every stage\u00a0\u2013 from the design to the manufacturing \u2013 was conceived in the spirit of their work. During the first exchanges\u00a0with graphic designer, Jocelyne Fracheboud and editor, Val\u00e9rie Cudel, Dector and Dupuy provided a list\u00a0of works, exhibitions and places where performance-visites were staged. Every title, placed in alphabetic order,\u00a0is accompanied by a code composed from the year, the origin and the city. This list forms the vertebral\u00a0column of the book. It indicates the intermediate state of a production in a state of continuous revisiting and\u00a0reinterpretation; it dictates the order of the Clusters and the texts, filed according to title; it drives a constant\u00a0rhythm that begins on the front cover and breaks off rather than concludes\u2026on the back cover.<\/p>\n
The fifteen Clusters \u2013 the only entries without a code \u2013 disrupt the flow. In accordance with their name,\u00a0a group of works is reproduced in colour then documented with short notes and black and white photographs.\u00a0The Clusters facilitate both an archiving of and a transverse reading of the production. They provide a ruse\u00a0for combining all the forms that Dector and Dupuy generate through their actions \u2013 those that they reveal\u00a0or those they resuscitate. The section \u201cLegend\u201d replaces the traditional biography, a resumption of the elements\u00a0in the list in connection with artistic institutions and appearances; geographical ranking is substituted\u00a0for traditional chronology. \u201cLegend\u201d is a disguised curriculum vitae.<\/p>\n
1. Jean-Marc Huitorel, \u201cL\u2019honneur des artistes, une introduction \u00e0 l\u2019oeuvre de Dector & Dupuy\u201d, in Dector & Dupuy,<\/p>\n
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