Duographie retraces ten years of the creation of the artist duo Pétrel I Roumagnac (duo), formed by Aurélie Pétrel and Vincent Roumagnac. At the crossroads of visual arts and theatre, their work explores the dialogue between photography and staging through installations with reactivation protocols and photostage pieces. Since 2013, they have been designing creations that evolve in accordance with their exhibition environment, questioning the conventions of the visibility of works, both in space and time. Each of the pieces presented by the duo is constantly moving in its exhibition space, evolving between latency time, reserve space and redistribution in space, according to successive rearrangements of photographic objects and other materials that make up them. The result is hybrid installations, a contemporary object theatre with blurred temporalities, a mixture of still images, body traces and performative sculpture in perpetual movement. The book takes the position of focusing visually on de rêves, d’Astérion, and de l’Ekumen, the trilogy of photoscenic pieces created by the duo between 2016 and 2023, each offering an immersive dive into their abundant floating universe. The duophonic play in nine scenes reproduces, in a theatre format, interviews between the two protagonists, which, together with friends passing through the course of their discussion, take place throughout the work played in and for the book, and illuminating, at the heart of the words inside, the ten years of this unique work in duo.

Aurélie Pétrel’s photographic practice questions the status of the image, its use and the mechanisms of its production. Anchored in the long term, her research aims to bring shooting back to the center of multisensory reflection using spatial devices. Aurélie Pétrel poses the question of the mutation-mutability of an image, its potential for fractalization, not only in itself but also in what it can cause as a disturbance in her experience of pluriperception. For her, a shot generates a multitude of shots from different points of view. Time and space are constantly superimposed, while they continue to disintegrate. The moving image is redistributed and its subsequent metamorphoses thus outweigh its consensual absorption, its one and definitive perception, its decisive moment and position. Implementing the formal tools and intellectual processes of both artists and researchers, Pétrel combines a visual and conceptual approach in a programmatic series of situations, where the exhibition format replays each time differently, the interpretative dimension of any score, any photograph in latency, any form waiting for metamorphosis. Her work is part of the collection of the Musée de l’Élysée in Lausanne (CH); of the Centre National d’Art Moderne (MNAM)–Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, of the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP), of the FRAC Normandie Rouen and of the FRAC Occitanie Montpellier…

Psychorama compiles more than 200 photographs taken by Patrick Weidmann over the last twenty years. His gaze has always focused on a world made of objects, consumption-devoted spaces, waiting rooms, all shimmering with lights and mirrors and striped of human presence… As if the artist transported his reader beyond an advertising screen, into a world where nothing is left of humanity but its commercial imprint and vanity. The book’s layout reinforces this projection into a familiar yet dystopian universe, where overconsumption has taken over.