The Lover by Marguerite Duras with a sleeve by Marie Hazard.

The Lover 
by Marguerite Duras
With a Sleeve by Marie Hazard
Featuring a poem by Lorraine de Thibault:

“Archaeology of desire, excavating
embraces each corner hides a tower
That rises infinite possibilities of
knowledge

tiny pieces, sand of you, each hollow
hides a sign that directs me
yet it is impossible to lose yourself

because infinity has an end
as the past has its time”

Limited edition 100 copies
Event at Left Bank Books 

“The spiral is an attempt at controlling the chaos. It has two directions. Where do you place yourself, at the periphery or at the vortex?” #louisebourgeois 

We are very excited to reveal that we will be making a new sleeve this May with French artist Marie Hazard. 

At the beginning of the year in Mexico City I encountered Marie by chance at a group show at Mascota Gallery. The walls of white rooms were hung with green tapestries, spirals. A big window on the outside was filled with green trees. Weavings, pulled downwards, extended the thread. Marie approached me to tell me that she had been following Sendb00ks for a while and, excitedly, we started to talk about the books that inspire her. 

A student of Central Saint Martins in London, where she learned to weave, Marie bought her first loom after launching a crowd-funding campaign. She explains in an interview with Sotheby’s that weaving is an intense manual work that requires hours of concentration—it is a quasi-mediative art sometimes weaving the words of writers like Duras, Barthes, Chantal Akerman, Etel Adnan, and Bouvier into her spirals. She is passionate about artists like Louise Bourgeois and Marina Abramovic, listening to the radio or podcasts while weaving. Marie describes her practice as a necessary process of storytelling. Or, in her own words, “I weave the invisible threads of an intimate story that does not know how to say otherwise.”

Marie is now working on an upcoming exhibition in NYC, opening on the first of June, which will be about her travel throughout Mexico and Brazil. Entitled L’air sous mes pieds, “it is the idea of lightness, movement, air, changes.” 

It is the day before I return to Mexico, and at the airport, we start to talk about making a sleeve in time for her NYC exhibition. Marie suggests The Lover, by Marguerite Duras. A mesmerising semi-autobiographical novel that won the Prix Goncourt. It is a coming of age story, about crossing the precipice.

With a poem woven into the spiral by her long time friend and collaborator Lorraine de Thibault. 

We are very excited to share this collaboration, with Marie's designs on the sleeve of The Lover - where for the first time we will present the books in person with the original artwork at the great Left Bank Books in NYC.