VENUS


Linda Tuloup
Text by Yannick Haenel
The book VENUS - where embraces lead us - brings Linda Tuloup's troubling photographs into dialogue with a text on desire written by Yannick Haenel (Prix Médicis 2017). The portraits of the model Elisa Meliani - author's friend - mingle with free and intimate self-portraits and together evoke dreams, the confusion of naked bodies, immemorial memories. Yannick Haenel's text flows between these photographs and opens us the doors of the garden of goddesses and gods of love.
"As pleasure peaks, a bird lights up behind the nape of your neck. A dove? A turtle dove? I don't know. Who cares: the universe surges forward in a spasm which makes us soar bird-like. Everything returns, yields and rushes: smoke, woods, stars, the moisture on your teeth, the black dress, the gold dress, and the wolf which covers you. Where has the roe deer gone?"
Yannick Haenel

After studying psychology, Linda Tuloup acquired a medium-format camera and created a personal, intimate, sensory world. Her photographic series express her powerful relationship with nature and images of the feminine, transcending mere seduction and inviting us into a highly poetic world in which the unconscious becomes a language in its own right. Her work has been extensively exhibited and published both in France and abroad. She is represented by the Olivier Waltman gallery (Paris, Miami).

Linda Tuloup
by Sam Hessamian
Yannick Haenel is co-editor of the magazine Ligne de risque. He has published a dozen novels including Tiens ferme ta couronne (Gallimard, 2017, Prix Médicis), Jan Karski (Gallimard, 2009, Prix Interallié), and most recently La Solitude Caravage (Fayard, 2019).

Yannick Haenel
by Linda Tuloup
VENUS
where embraces lead us
Linda Tuloup
text by Yannick Haenel

Limited edition of 500 copies
470 copies for the classical edition, numbered 31/500 to 500/500
Pre-order the classical edition
30 € instead of 38 € // Till December 1st


Special edition of 30 signed copies numbered 01/500 to 30/500, signed by both authors et with an original photograph printed by Linda Tuloup, size 16 x 21 cm
Pre-order the special edition
195 € instead of 250€ // Till December 1st

To date, the pre-sale has reached 95 copies.
And 22 copies of the special edition left.
Technical informations about the book
- 18 x 22 cm
- 52 pages
- 20 dutones plates
- texts in French, translation in english on a separate sheet
- paper 170 g
- exposed binding
- hot foil stamping
- two-part cover printed on tinted paper
- ISBN : 978-2-9555912-9-1
- Availability : December 2019

Technical informations about the print
- Black-and-white silver-gelatin print on baryta paper Bergger semi-matte 280 g
- Print size16 x 21 cm, rotating edge of 1 cm
- Produced by the author
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