{"product_id":"cyclamen","title":"Cyclamen","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlix Chauvet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA debut suite of unfaithful translations drawn from Baudelaire’s \u003ci\u003eLes Fleurs du mal\u003c\/i\u003e: a bunch of flowers in decay, pressed and frayed, ‘a flock of pockmarked words.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThrough these creative ‘translations’ of Charles Baudelaire, Alix Chauvet—artist, designer, poet—refuses fidelity in favour of flirtation: her ‘\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eflowers of evil\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’ line Amsterdam’s canals, drink from the same rainclouds as Rachel Ruysch’s bewitching bouquets, sprout through peat, and are tended by a distinctly feminist and nomadic sensibility. Chauvet—akin to Olive Moore, Sean Bonney and Lisa Robertson—takes the nineteenth-century French decadent as a contemporary accomplice for aesthetic and linguistic misbehaviour. Walter Benjamin once wrote of Baudelaire that he is ‘\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eder geheime Architekt der Moderne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e,’ and in Chauvet’s hands, those foundations are made porous, unbuilt into cast shadows, into ribbons, into veins streaming across the page. Accompanied by scans of the French poems and Chauvet’s shadow photography, what \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCyclamen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ultimately offers us is a regenerative rewilding of the English language: a wondrous terrain ringed by vines of unruly syntax and dotted with the fruit of words refusing domestication by any single tongue.' – Mia You\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54360134680886,"sku":null,"price":20.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/4182\/9430\/files\/IMG_1523.jpg?v=1785661963","url":"https:\/\/enclothin.com\/products\/cyclamen","provider":"enclothin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}