Assemblée générale. by BOURNAZEL, Diane de.

(210 × 105 mm), pp. [20], each leaf fully illuminated by hand, mixed media with ink, watercolour and collage. Bound by Armelle Guégant in decorative marbled boards (paper by Marianne Peter), manuscript labels, matching slipcase.

Conventional politics is rarely expressed in De Bournazel’s work, which tends to explore more universal experience. But occasionally it emerges, if only by allusion. Created in a particularly turbulent year in French culture and politics Assemblée générale bears a couple of teasing red and blue brush strokes on the cover label. Inside, however, the Assemblée générale envisaged by the artist feels like an interior politics rather than any played out in the machinery of the French state — densely populated, variegated and unsettling.