200 pages Text(s) by Stéphanie Lemoine Preface by Hugo Vitrani Poems by Vanessa Viñas Photographs by Philippe Baudelocque, Jessica Terrestre, Nicolas Gzeley Designed by George Muñoz Language: French 28.5 x 21.5 cm Paperback, sewn square-back binding Publisher: Land'Artic Collection edition: Swiss binding, rigid board cover with white hot-foil stamping, 29.3 x 22.2 cm, limited to 175 copies numbered 1/175 to 175/175 and signed by the artist 2026
Équation de fusion is the fourth book by Philippe Baudelocque, devoted to the work that gives it its name. For seven months, the artist painted in the dark of the iS15, an emergency staircase at the Palais de Tokyo that the public cannot enter. The book follows that immersion and his question: how to capture the invisible structures of living matter. Oil pastel frescoes, calligraphic architectures from the Andaya series, celestial maps and generative patterns sit beside vibrational performances. Hugo Vitrani's preface, Stéphanie Lemoine's text and Vanessa Viñas's poems frame the book. The gesture starts in graffiti, but the book is less about the street than about the point where matter, science and myth meet.
The collection edition is a separate numbered run of 175 copies, signed by the artist. The Swiss binding lets the book open flat, which suits the full-page pastel work. The cover is board wrapped in Imitlin Aida Nero paper, with white hot-foil on the front. Each copy is authenticated by the publisher through a blind embossing on the endpaper.
