About Yann Toma
Born 1969. Yann Toma is a French visual artist.
Yann Toma (born in 1969) in is an artist and a researcher, the lifelong president of the company Ouest-Lumière and an artist-observer within the UN, where he sits as an entrepreneurial artist. With projects always anchored in a societal context, Yann Toma's fundamental idea is to rebuild the link. Connecting with ourselves, our collective memory, and the transforming power generated by the mass, art is used here as a means of materializing energy flows but also as an energy in its own right.
Yann Toma is a French contemporary artist and a researcher. He positions his work and his reflection on the border of the artistic expression, always involved in political and social events. Toma places the artist as responsible for social debate. As a mediator he can invite people to get involved, to take part of a collaborative energy. Toma collaborates with entreprises, political scientists as well as philosophers. By salvaging material from former electric power company Ouest-Lumière in the early 1990s, he has appropriated a symbolic network, an industrial infrastructure which he turned into his research territory and the very matter of his activity. Toma, president for life of Ouest Lumière, is also an artist-observer within the U.N where he sits as an entrepreneurial artist.
Artistic energy Toma developed the concept of artistic energy. He appropriated a symbolic network, an infrastructure coming from factories of which he made his territory of research and the subject of his activity. "Ouest-Lumière" is above all about an immaterial network which the artist established patiently, a network of subterranean resistance resting on the notion of memory and report. His personal but collaborative exhibition Dynamo-Fukushima, exhibited at the Grand Palais for the Heritage Days of September 2011, attracted more than 17,000 people in two days. This focus on collective energy and solidarity, after the nuclear disaster of Fukushima in this case, is the tone of Toma's favorite topic.
Career positions The artist is also a PHD professor and a researcher in University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne where he manages the team of research CNRS (French national center for scientific research), named " Art & Flux " which is as much a look-out post, an observatory of theoretical and critical research, as a laboratory of experiment and artistic production. Art & Flux (Art and Flows) reports in a critical way what connects the art, the economy and the society. He is the author of the collective work Les entreprises critiques (" The critical companies ") and of Artistes & Entreprises (Artists & Companies).
Collections The artistic work of Toma is part of numerous collections. His work is integrated in particular into the collection of Centre Georges Pompidou and was put in the inventory of the National Art Collection of Contemporary Art in 2007. He is represented by The Opening Gallery, in New York. A monography, entitled "Yann Toma" (texts, conversations, 700 photos and illustrations), went out to September 2011 which presents the extent of his work and artistic flux of the President for life of Ouest-Lumière. His personal participative exhibition in the Grand Palais Dynamo-Fukushima (in September 2011) gathered more than 17,000 visitors in two days. The French national memorial created for the centennial of the World War I is the last monumental artwork of the artist. At night, the monument called L'Anneau de la mémoire becomes La Grande Veilleuse ("The Great Wake Light") and the memory of 580,000 soldiers keeps shining when the visitors are gone.
Artistic route
Personal exhibitions 1992, 1994 Élaboration du Mémorial de l'Usine Ouest Lumière (Elaboration of the Memorial of the Factory Ouest Lumière), Espace EDF, Puteaux, France
1997 L'Usine fantasmagorique, (The phantasmagorical Factory), Centers art and culture of the Farm of Buisson, Noisiel La vitrine de l'officine du docteur Bartok (The shop window of the pharmacy of doctor Bartok), Révillon d'Apreval Gallery, Paris, France Le cercle de la crypte (The circle of the crypt), Caves de l'AFAA, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (France), Paris, France Alchimie souterraine (Subterranean alchemy), Chez Eve Marie-Chauvin, Paris, France
1998 Plovdiski noshti, Alliance Française (French alliance) of Bulgaria and Gallery Gamma, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
1999 Ostension de Rose HEIM, 'La hune' Bookshop, Paris, France Les nuits de Plovdiv, Affaires culturelles de la Ville de Paris (Cultural affairs of the City of Paris), AFAA, Paris (Association Française d'Action Artistique – French association of Artistic Action)
2000 Restes lumière, Galerie Valérie Cueto, Paris, France
2001 Crimes sur commande (Crimes to order), Espace huit novembre, Paris, France
2002 Contrôle qualité (Quality control), Patricia Dorfmann Galery, Paris, France Ouest-Lumière – Laboratoire de recherche (Research laboratory), Patricia Dorfmann Galery, Paris, France Début de transmission (At the beginning of transmission), Cité internationale universitaire de Paris, France
2003 Procédure de Rappel (Procedure of Reminder), Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France BF15 AIRPORT, BF15, Lyon, France Ouverture de l'ABRI, Paris, France
2004 "Ouest-Lumière", The Brewers, Liège, Belgium Traitement de faveur (Special treatment), La Blanchisserie, Boulogne, France
2005 Ouest-Lumière 1905–2005, CCC, Tours Flux radiants et Transmission Annecy, (Radiant Flows and Transmission Annecy ), Castle museum, Annecy Ouest-Lumière, Center of art La Passerelle, Brest, France
2006 Good vibrations, Alliance française of New Delhi, India Part de jouissance (Part of enjoyment), Patricia Dorfmann Galery, Paris, France
2007 Part de jouissance 2 (Part of enjoyment 2), Centre d'art contemporain d'Épinal (Contemporary Arts Center of Épinal), Épinal, France
2008 Ouest-Lumière la collection (31–05,31-08), Museum EDF Electropolis, Mulhouse, France
2009 BANKROT, Bourouina Gallery, Berlin, 6th District, Germany Dynamo POST-BANKRUPT, Musée Zadkine, Paris, France BANKROT, Cultural French Ambassy, New York, United States CROSSING WAYS, UNO, New York, United States
2010 Security Council, United Nations, New York City Geysir Ouest-Lumière, Royaumont Abbey, France
2011 Dynamo-Fukushima, Grand Palais, Paris There was chemistry, Walls and bridges, French Embassy in the United States, New York City Security Council, Monumental work, La Villette, Paris – CO² Storage/Sculptures de CO², Hôtel Lutetia, FIAC, Paris, France General Assembly, UN, United Nations, New York – Incursiòn en la ONU, Bogotá, Colombia Wikileaks : Les câbles litigieux Ouest-Lumière (Wikileaks: The litigious cables Ouest-Lumière), Incognito Artclub, Paris, France Geysir Ouest-Lumière, Royaumont Abbey, France Transmission Karlsruhe, KAMUNA, Karlsruher Museumsnacht, Germany
2012 L'Or Bleu (the blue gold), In association with Francis Kurkdjian, Le Bazacle, foundation EDF, Toulouse, France
2013 TRANSvision, light work and video installation, main guest of Montrouge Biennale, Le Beffroi, Montrouge, France TRANScorp. light transmission, interactive and permanent artwork, La Briqueterie, Vitry-sur-Seine, France The Man in Gold, Alvin Alto Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2014 Observations on Secrecy, Surveillance and Censorship, drawings, "Logan Symposium", The Barbican Centre, London Climate March & General Assembly, engagement and civic investigation, New York, United States La Grande Veilleuse (The Great Wake Light), monumental work mixing light and architecture, in collaboration with the architecture agency AAPP. French national memorial of the World War I, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, France PLASMA, personal exhibition around the series "Les Restitutions". Bourouina Gallery, Berlin
2015 Human Energy, monumental and participative installation, Eiffel Tower, Paris, France Climate Statements, portraits of States Chiefs drawn at the UN headquarters, Espace Krajcberg, Paris, France
2016 Liberty Light, Eiffel Tower, Paris, New-York Flux Radiants : l'énergie que nous avons en nous, photographie, Peugeot Avenue, Beijing, China Drawings about Wikileaks, Variation Paris Media Artfair, during FIAC, Paris, France Sculptures, Société de Service, Plateforme, Paris, France Flux Radiants, Art of Change 21 à la COP22, Le Riad Yima, Marrakesh, Morocco Câbles Ouest-Lumière, in Sociétés de service, Plateforme, Paris, France Energetic Cover, photographie, Socialter, France YEW : Youth Energy Water, oeuvre monumenatale participative, La Manera de Marrakesh, Morocco Human Greenergy, oeuvre monumentale participative, Baitaisi White Dagoba Temple, Beijing Design Week, Beijing, China Human Lux, installation, Musée de l'Homme, IHEST Ministère de la Recherche, Paris, France Ouest-Lumière Papers Show, dessins/drawings, Incognito Art Club, Paris, France Signing Ceremony, drawings, General Assembly, United Nations, New York, United States Change Power, Portraits Logan Symposium, BCC, Berlin, Germany
2017 The United Nations General Assembly, performances, New York, United States Flux radiants, photographies, Paris Photo, Banque Neuflize, Paris, France Tokyo Tour, série de performances, Tokyo, Japan The Artist in Residence for life at the UN, série d'interventions, New York, United States
2018 Réactivation Ouest-Lumière, Espace Immanence, Paris, France
2019 Transmission IV: Freedom for plants and the new pact for humanity, France-Romania Season, Institut Français, Timișoara, Romania Transmission III: listen to the secrets of the world, Saison France-Romania, Institut Français, Iași, Romania Brain Plants, Saison France-Roumanie, Institut Français, Victoria Gallery, Iași, Romania In situ work, Saison France-Roumanie, Institut Français, Central de Interes, Iași, Romania Transmission II : The one who speak to the plants, International Light Day, Saison France-Roumanie, Institut Français, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Transmission I : Words of love & wishes for the world, Institut Français, Bucharest, Romania
Collective exhibitions 1994 Regard, Carottages en terre de l'Usine Ouest Lumière (Glance, Core drillings in earth of the Factory Ouest Lumière), Unesco, Paris, France 1995 Chez l'un, Cercles d'ampoules (To the one, Encircle of bulbs), Anton Weller Gallery, Paris, France 1996 La réserve des blancs manteaux (The reserve of the white coats), L'atelier parisien, Paris, France Chez l'un, Cabinet alchimique (To the one, Cabinet alchimique), Anton Weller Gallery, Paris – Biennale de Champigny, Mausolée de l'ouvrier inconnu (Mausoleum of the unknown worker), Champigny, France Monument et modernité (Monument and modernity), Espace Electra, Paris, France Chez l'un, Camera obscura (To the one, Camera obscura), Anton Weller Gallery, Paris, France 1997 Réveillons-nous, Sous l'asphalte (Let us wake up, Under the asphalt), Anton Weller Gallery, Valentin, Météo, Paris, France Renvoi d'ascenseur – Opération Sztreminski (Cross-reference of elevator – Operation Sztreminski), Musée cinématographique de Łódź, Poland Le complot (The plot), institut Cochin de génétique moléculaire (Cochin institute of molecular genetics), Paris, France Empoussièrement du musée Napoléonien (Dustment of the Napoleonic museum), Ministry of Culture, Fontainebleau, France 1998 Bruits secrets (Secret Rumours), Silicates de sodium (Silicates of sodium), CCC, Tours, France Ostension 1, EDF-ACT 91- City hall of La Norville, France 1999 9.0, Ostension du corps de Marianne Ripp (9.0, Ostension of Marianne Ripp's body), Web Bar, Paris, France Un lieu en travaux, Garage de soucoupes volantes (A place in works, Garage of spaceships), IUFM d'Étiolles, Étiolles – FIAC, Les Extases, Anton Weller Gallery, Paris, France Bateau Laboratoire, Paris vu du ciel (Boat Laboratory, Paris seen by the sky), Espace Bateau Lavoir, Paris, France Biennale des jeunes créateurs d'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Variation pour cinq housses (Biennial event of the young creators of Europe and the Mediterranean Sea, Variation for five covers), Rome, Italy Events, Crimes sur commande (Vents, Crimes to order), Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, France Work-shop, Variation pour quatre housses (Work-shop, Variation for four covers), Anton Weller Gallery, Paris, France Nécropolis, Ostension du corps de Laurent Claquin (Nécropolis, Ostension of Laurent Claquin's body), Georges-Philippe and Nathalie Vallois Gallery, Paris 2000 aaa, archiving as art, Ouest-Lumière télémarketing, Isea, Paris, France Work shop, Images-flash, UFR 04, Paris, France Trafic de clones (Traffic of clones), Le cabinet M, Ivry L'art contemporain au risque du clonage (The contemporary art at the risk of the cloning), Le représentant, Vert le Petit Élémentaire, L'AFFAIRE de l'église St-Germain (Elementary, THE AFFAIR of the church St-Germain), Amiens L'incurable mémoire des corps, Le lieu de l'Incurable (Incurable memory of bodies, place of the Incurable), Ivry-sur-Seine Immanence, White houses, Infiltration, Paris – Argos project, Infiltration, Vevey, Switzerland Usine, ouvrier-ouvrière (Factory, male worker – female worker), Paris, France Lumière aux Cordeliers, Variation pour trente-six housses (Light to the Cordeliers, Variation for thirty six covers), Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris Sous l'asphalte (Under the asphalt Within the framework of the Parcours Saint Germain, Paris, France Promesses pour les années 2000 (Promises for 2000s), Ostension of the body of Stéphane Pianacci, CFDT, Paris, France Emplacement-déplacement IV, II ostension du corps de Marianne Ripp (Location – Travel IV, II ostension of Marianne Ripp's body), Anton Weller Gallery, Paris. Emplacement-Déplacement III, Ostension du corps de Nathalie F (Location – Travel IV, II ostension of Nathali F), Anton Weller Gallery, Paris, France 2001 Quand l'art contemporain s'expose au débat public (When the contemporary art exposes itself to the public debate), Traversées, ARC Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris), Paris, France Facteur de troubles (Factor of disorders), Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, Nanterre (within the framework of the line of research for the CERAP "praxis et altérités", praxis and otherness) Effervescence, Contrôle qualité (Excitement, Quality control), Georges-Philippe and Nathalie Vallois Excitement, Quality control, Paris Personal light, Organismus, Kunsthauss, Hamburg, Germany – Dix poumons (Ten lungs), In association with Goran Vejvoda, MNAM Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Jardin d'émotions (Garden of feelings), Specimen Ouest-Lumière, Musée Vera, Saint-Germain-en-Laye Immersion périscopique (Periscopic dumping), BATTERY SHOP, MACHINE SHOP, ELECTRICAL SHOP, Centre d'art de Soissons Situation, Dix séances au rayon violet (Situation, Ten sessions in the purple beam), Institut d'astrophysique, Paris, France Rouge, extase n°2 et l'AFFAIRE du boulevard de Reuilly (Red, ecstasy n°2 and the AFFAIR of the boulevard of Reuilly), Valérie Cueto Gallery, Paris, France 2002 Sémaphore 1, Salon du patrimoine (Lounge of the holdings), Caroussel du Louvre, Paris, France Fête des lumières (Party of the lights), Transmission Pernon, Lyon Nuit blanche, Transmission Oberkampf, Paris – Flux radiants (Radiant Flows), La friche de la belle de mai (Astéride), Marseille Star 67, Ouest-Lumière production, Brooklyn, New York 2003 Showroom #3 : Imposture légitime (Showroom 3: imposture legitimizes), Patricia Dorfmann Gallery, Paris Ma petite entreprise (My small firm), Centre d'art de Meymac (Center of art of Meymac), Meymac Crime de Nathalie F (Crime of Nathalie F), FIAC, Patricia Dorfmann Gallery, Paris, France Vies à vies (Lives to lives), Parcours Saint-Germain, Paris, France 2004 Nu radiant (Radiant nude), FIAC, Patricia Dorfmann Galery, Paris, France Transmission Ivry, Exposition Polyptyque, Ivry sur Seine Nous assurons votre avenir énergétique, La rue aux artistes (We insure your energy future, The street to the artists), Viacom, 300 4/3 panels in all France Shelter Ouest-Lumière, Le Vent des forêts, forêt de Marcaulieu Affaire du museum Franz Gertsch (Affair of the museum Franz Gertsch), Kallmann Museum, Munich, Germany Chambre de contrôle (Chamber of control), Espace EDF Electra, Paris, France Douce France (Soft France), Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal True Lies, Musée Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland 2005 FIAC, Service des Armes de destruction massive – Destruction de 7000 magazines Technikart (FIAC, Department of Weapons of mass destruction – Destruction of 7000 magazines Technikart), Ouest-Lumière Neuf Crimes sur commandes (Nine Crimes on orders), Patricia Dorfmann Galery, Paris, France Chromoscaphe 1, Laboratoires du Musée du Louvre, Paris (within the framework of "Lumière-Couleur") Lancement du Radion (Launch of Radion), Art A3, Paris, France Pit of the company Ouest-Lumière, Centre des Jeunes Dirigeants, Paris, France Crimes sur commande, Face à Faces, AFAA, Artcurial, Paris, France 2006 Walls of Neemrana, École des Beaux arts, Rouen, France Soucoupe volante (Spaceship), Les Peintres de la vie moderne (The Painters of the modern life), Georges Pompidou Center, Donation Collection photographique de la Caisse des Dépôts (Donation photographic Collection of the Deposit office) Face to Faces, AFAA, Stockholm, Sweden État du monde (State of the world), Espace III, Toulouse Face to Faces, AFAA, Edinburgh, Scotland Face to Faces, AFAA, Reykjavík, Iceland Dormir, rêver ... et autres nuits (Sleep, dream and the other nights), CAPC, Bordeaux Face à Faces, AFAA, Maison Rouge, Paris, France 2007 Inondazione, Luce di Pietra, Palais Farnèse, Ambassade de France (Embassy of France), Rome, Italy 2008 L'argent, Ouest-Lumière Stock Exchange (Money, Ouest-Lumière Stock Exchange', 18–06,17-08), Le plateau, Paris (curator: Elisabeth Lebovici) Biennale di Alessandria "Shapes of time" (29–05,31-08), Alessandria, Italy MONEY, (29–03,30-05), Sino Company, Düsseldorf, Germany (curator: Reinhard Spieler) Whats'up 2009 (14–06,2-08-08), Bourouina Gallery, Berlin Art Paris 2008, Patricia Dorfmann Galery, Grands Palais, Paris, France 2009 The wealth of nations, Patricia Dorfmann Galery, Paris, France Flux, Paris Photo, Patricia Dorfmann Galery, Paris, France GENIPULATION, Centre Pasquart, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland Face to face, Musée de la photographie, Thessaloniki, Greece Geysir, Musée National d'art contemporain (National museum of contemporary art), Thessaloniki, Greece Weak signals / Wild cards, Tentoonstelling, Amsterdam, Netherlands Princess Frog, Jozsa Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Art Brussels International Art Fair, Bourouina Gallery, Belgium JOIN US, BVA & YT, the Armory Show, New York Wealth of nations, Patricia Dorfmann Galery, Paris, France 2010 Hypothèses Vérification, Laboratoire art & science (Hypotheses Check, Laboratory art and science), Moscow, Russia Ouest-Lumière CO2 Storage, Le pire n'est jamais certain (The worst is never certain), Chapelle des Templiers, Metz, France 2011 Art & Bicyclette (Art and Bicycle), Espace d'art concret (Space of concrete art), commissariat Paul Ardenne Fabienne Fulchéri, Mouans-Sartoux Genius Loci, Hôtel Fonfreyde, Centre photographique (Photographic center), commissariat Garance Chabert, Clermont-Ferrand Art et argent (Art and money), liaisons dangereuses (dangerous connections), Musée de la Monnaie de Paris (Museum of the Currency of Paris), Paris Lumière Noire (Black light), Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, kurator Alexander Eiling, Germany Rupture mon amour (Break my love), Maison des Arts de Malakoff, commissariat de Aude Cartier, France – Lumière Noire (Black light), Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany Monumental, Musée de Belfort Rupture mon amour, La Maison des Arts, Malakoff 2013 Somaflux, "D-light, 3ème édition", Happen Space Accenture, Paris, France World Energizing, art fair Show Off, Espace Cardin, Paris, France "Æsthetic Transactions" with Carsten Höller, Tatiana Trouvé, ORLAN. Michel Journiac Gallery, Paris (curator: Richard Shusterman) CO2 Storage, Art Paris Art Fair, Bourouina Gallery. Grand Palais, Paris, France Flux Radiants, "Brincar com a Luz", Rio, Brazil Occupy Laguardia, "Figures du sommeil", Jean Collet Gallery, Vitry-sur-Seine, France Cabine à flux 1,2 et 3 en collaboration avec Mathieu Lehanneur, JWT/Maison Cailler/ Nestlé, at Broc, Genève then Zurich, Suisse 2014 Les Restitutions, art fair Show Off Variation, Espace des blancs manteaux, Paris, France Sculptures Wikileaks, "Absurde, vous avez dit absurde?", Les Filles du Calvaire Gallery, Paris, France Walls of Neemrana/ Dynamo-Fukushima, "Ensemble", De facto La Gallery, Paris (curator : Paul Ardenne) Video installation Dynamo-Fukushima, "Velodream, Art & Bike", Wroclaw, Poland Ouest-Lumière, "Business Model, Entreprises d'Artiste", La Vitrine AM, Paris, France Sidération du Général André Bach, "Fusillés pour l'exemple – Les fantômes de la République", Hôtel de ville, Paris, France 2015 Statements, portraits of States Chiefs drawn at the UN headquarters, Drawing Now Paris, Carreau du Temple, Paris, France Human Dynamo/ CO2 storage/ Les Restitutions, "Post-Carbone", headquarter of La Poste Group, Paris, France 2016 Drawings about Wikileaks, Variation, Artfair, during FIAC, France Sculptures, Société de Service, Plateforme, Paris, France 2018 Ex Voto, Sourcil du Président à vie de Ouest-Lumière, in Rikiki 2, Galerie Satellite, Paris, France Ouest-Lumière, in 20 years of the EDF Foundation, Espace EDF Electra, Paris, France COLLECTION DAVID H. BROLLIET, GENEVA, , Art Basel, Saint-Louis, France White Card, Festival MAD (Multiple Art Days), Editions Baudouin Jannink, Hôtel de la monnaie, Paris, France Holistic Schemas, UFO Festival, Nice, France Lacry-Mots, in Christmas Project, Immanence/New Immanence, Paris, France 2019 Morse transmission, Cluj Never Sleep Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania "Tropical/exotic gardens, Workshop "Art, gardens, scenography, and sustainable development", Panthéon Sorbonne, Palermo, Italy 2023
Calendar Kopice | Restitutions | 2024 (cooperation with the KOPICE.PL group and the parish in Kopice)
Prizes and awards 2022 : Knight of the Order of the French Legion of Honor. 2019 : Prize of the "Transitioner of the Year", Fondation des transitions, France. 2014 : Medal of honor from the city of Montrouge 2004 : FIACRE DAP, France 2002 : Prize of the social Artwork of the year, APC, city of Lyon 1997 : AFAA/Mairie de Paris, City hall of Paris 1995 : Fondation EDF
Publications
Books by Yann Toma Yann Toma, Monograph (in several languages), under the direction of Yann Toma, Foreword Édouard Glissant, 10 authors, Éditions Jannink (publisher), Paris, , 672 illustrations, 2011. Les entreprises critiques/Critical companies, bilingual, Cité du design Éditions/CERAP Éditions-Publishing, Saint-Étienne, France , 2008 Ouest-Lumière – La Collection, Éditions Jannink (publisher), Paris, , 2008 Part de jouissance (Part of enjoyment), Éditions Jannink, Paris, 2007 Abri mode d'emploi (Shelter instructions for use), Michel Baverey Éditions (publisher), Paris, 2003 Plovdiski Noschti, AFAA, Victoires Éditions (publisher), Paris, 1999 Crimes sur commande (Crimes to order), Victoires Éditions (publisher), Paris, 1998 In association with Richard Conte and M. Tabeaud, L’Usine dans l’espace francilien (The Factory in the space inhabitant of Ile-de-France), la Sorbonne publishing, 2001 Supervised by Yann Toma, La Cheminée phosphorescente (The phosphorescent Fireplace), Victoires publishing, 2000
Books about Yann Toma Yann Toma, Monography (several languages), Supervised by Yann Toma, Foreword Édouard Glissant, 10 authors, Éditions Jannink, Paris, , 672 pages, illustrations, 2011. Yann Toma, Journal-affiche numéro 1 (Yann Toma, Newspaper-poster number 1), François Noudelmann, Monography in English / French, Editions Jannink, Paris, , 2009. Ouest-Lumière, Paul Ardenne, Isthme Éditions (publisher), FIACRE DAP, 128p, Paris, 2004. La cheminée phosphorescente (The phosphorescent Fireplace), S. Wright, V. Da Costa, C. Bayle, Victoires Éditions, 64p, Paris, 2000.
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