Le point d'ironie n°66 - Jim Jarmusch

The American director, writer, musician and artist curated a selection of his collages for the last le point d'ironie periodical issue. 

“For my collages I use only newsprint for their sources, and most involve only the removal and/or replacement of heads or faces. I remember as a kid, I received a microscope for my birthday. The first thing I examined through its lenses was a tiny scrap of torn newspaper. I was astounded. Instead of a single, solid sheet-like material, it was in fact a tangled mass of threadlike fibers, a chaotic jungle of microscopic pulp. Ever since, the fragility and inherently temporary nature of this particular (and now nearly obsolete) material has attracted me.”, the artist explains.

The ⸮ originates from a talk between agnès b., Christian Boltanski and Hans Ulrich Obrist in 1997. Each issue is made by an artist who makes it his own and brings it up to a singular work of art. By means of its gratuitousness as well as of its size and circulation, the ⸮ is an atypical periodical which is distributed in scattered way (one hundred thousand copies are spread out over the world in museums, galleries, bookshops, schools, movie theatres, shops, etc.) Made up by the French writer Alcanter de Brahm at the end of the XIXth century, the ⸮ is punctuation mark used at the end of sentences (as an exclamation or a question mark) to point ironic passages in a text.

The Jim Jarmusch book "Some collages" is published by Anthology Editions.