Book-object produced as part of the residency program Sounds Like a Book in Șona, Romania, 2024

Bound together by a piece of branch, the pages of the book revisit the idea of the photo album, highlighting stick users in the village of Şona. The carbonized appearance of the stick is reminiscent of the blackened facades of farmhouses, also echoing the soundtrack associated with the book, which can evoke the crackle of fire.
The sound recording is the result of rubbing a mic contact that I deliberately left lying on the floor. The idea was to reproduce the gesture of the shepherd who crosses the village every day with a tree branch in his hand, its foliage tickling the asphalt.

Wooden Stick
Laure Catugier, 2024

200 x 210 mm, 16pp; English
Wooden Binding: The order of the book's pages is not fixed as the stick can be removed, so that several combinations are possible.

Concept, graphic design and image credit: Laure Catugier

Signed and numbered 
Edition of 15

© Laure Catugier & VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Exhibition: Sounds Like a Book : (S)pace
May 2 - 24, 2025