ART WILL TEAR US APART

To mark the fifth anniversary of the project's new chapter under the name House of Chappaz, the decision was made to create a book celebrating this milestone while taking the opportunity to approach the subject of an art gallery from a different perspective.

The result is a double-sided book that offers two ways of looking at and understanding the gallery. On one side, a collective perspective built through the contributions of 40 people connected to the space: artists, assistants, collectors, critics, curators, historians and other profiles who, from their different viewpoints, share their take on House of Chappaz. A collection of voices that comes together to create a broad and multifaceted portrait of the gallery.

On the other, the book aims to show what goes on behind the scenes of a space such as an art gallery: installations, trips, late-night tourism, art fairs, openings and many other situations that make up its everyday activity. By turning the book over, the reading experience changes, becoming an exclusively photographic album. More than 650 photographs, arranged thematically but without clearly defined categories, create a visual journey based mainly on images taken by the gallery's own team over these five years. Most of them captured on mobile phones.

Two books in one. This dual nature is also reflected in the materials and the way the book is read. The text section uses matte paper, while the photographic album is printed on glossy paper, physically reinforcing the publication's two distinct perspectives. To read the texts, the book starts from one side; to view the photographs, it must be turned over, as the images are printed upside down so that they appear correctly when the book is reversed. In this way, each side of the paper corresponds to one of the two experiences: matte for the texts and glossy for the images.

The publication features two covers, two titles and a dust jacket that, through a digital process, randomly combines 200 artworks exhibited over the years into a chaotic composition. This same image extends across the opening pages of the photographic section. Other devices, such as the use of fluctuating ink in the text section, turn the book into a combination of design and printing effects, all placed in the service of the concept.