Something Vibrantly Alive

In a world saturated with ephemeral images, Something Vibrantly Alive advocates for slowing down. This visual and theoretical essay does not compile a nostalgic inventory, rather it opens up a critical space: What do we do with the images we produce? What do they reveal about our connection to the world, to memory, to life – and to what will survive us? Drawing on the work of more than 25 artists, at the crossroads of archives, anthropology, contemporary art and geology, Jean-Christophe Arcos explores a ‘visionary mineralogy’: a photography thought to be like stone – a persistent trace, a receptacle of time, resistant to erasure. Andrés Barón, Louidgi Beltrame, Claude Cattelain, Coraline de Chiara, Marion Dubier-Clark, Anne-Valérie Gasc, Isabelle Giovacchini, Noémie Goudal, Alice Guittard, Laurent Lacotte, Guillaume Linard-Osorio, Souad Mani, Wilfried Nail, Frédéric Nakache, Riccardo Olerhead, Angyvir Padilla, Hélène Paris, Régis Perray, Simon Pfeffel, Gilles Pourtier, Olivier Sévère, Sammy Stein, Éric Stephany, Vincent Voillat, Virginie Yassef, Léonie Young With the support of the Centre national des arts plastiques French / English Design Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine 180 pages, 18 x 24 cm Soft cover, silkscreen July 2025 | ISBN 978-2-490140-42-8