By Damien Tran
Building a Lake, Making Pebbles Disappear, Wearing a Hat tells the story of a group of humans living in the forest. Some thirty chapters describe different aspects of their lives: their diet, their games, their funeral rites, their celebrations, their customs... They spend a lot of time building magnificent rafts that sink as soon as they're launched. They dig a very large lake simply for the pleasure of attracting waterfowl. Their ambitious projects often end in failure, but it seems nothing matters.
Damien Tran is a self-taught artist. His work revolves around drawing, printmaking techniques, painting, and animation.
In 2012, he and Marion Jdanoff founded the duo Palefroi: a screen printing workshop, publishing house, and collaborative art project based in Berlin until 2019.
Together, they published dozens of books, zines, posters, and screen-printed art prints.
Damien currently lives in a forest in the Aveyron region of France.
His solo and collaborative work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and specialised festivals in Europe, the United States, and Asia.
Grante Égle
Softback
112 Pages
1000 copies
Bilingual book (French/English)