A big thank you to lintervalle.blog for this beautiful book review of Mise en Abyme by yemchuk
Posted by FABIENRIBERY on DECEMBER 4, 2024
“A hymn to female power, to play, to inventiveness, by Yelena Yemchuk, visual artist.
[…] It is this creative process of redefining the object-book as a flow of consciousness, malleable, transformable, metamorphoseable, to the infinity of inspiration.
In two years, УYY could have aged, withered, disappeared a little under the risks of time, but no, he is rejuvenated with the effect of a Mise en abyme that gave him considerable energy.
Sensuality is omnipresent there, associated with childhood, which is less an age than a way not to miss the beauty of a high degree of awakening.
But there is even more, each copy containing a unique and different original folded print, which represents 1/8 of a typographic sheet saved from waste, or the possibility of an identification.
We must insist: nothing counts more than the time of childhood, its fears, its exaltations, from which derive the general orientations, conscious or not, of an adult life that generally fail to prolong its genius.
In a way, Mise en abyme is the fantasy of УYY, his characters, drawn or not, who look frankly at the spectators like a threatening Saturn who comes to them to devour them, magnificent of their irreducible bodies, embarked here in a visual flow that magnifies them while opacifying them.
Shim of desire that electrifies the pages.
Youthfulness of the moose.
Skull attitude of women who fear neither seduction nor the possibility of a taboo-free enjoyment.
Mise en abyme is a hymn to the power of women, to play, to inventiveness.
It’s a rare book, because it’s deeply free.”
✨thank you Fabien
