What do we start with when telling a story — What tensions activate it — What does it promise — What do we want from it — How do we deliver it — Must it have an end — What about a story which never began — Stories we wish were told — Stories which have always been there — Stories we don’t know how to start.
Beginnings is a collective attempt at questioning protocols and forms of narration, initiated by Manon Michèle. The publication gathers textual and visual works from twenty-nine artists, writers and collectives. With two covers, ninety-six pages, and no end, the publication remains in flux, with no definitive conclusions but the shape of an ongoing question: Where do we start and where might the act of arriving lead.
110×175×10mm, 96pp + Insert
29 Contributors
Printed offset black by @cassochrome.printing (Gent, BE). Cover ×3: black + PMS translucent metallic on Igepa Invercote G, 240gsm. Inner: black on EOS 2.0, 90gsm. Cold glue bound. Insert: Risograph printed colour; fluorescent green, blue, red by @studio_fidele (Paris, FR).
Image 1: Yunie Chae @chaechup
Image 6: Silvana Mc Nulty @silvana_mcnulty_
photography: Manon Michèle @non.assistance
Contributors:
Alice dos Reis @alicedreis
Anaïs Fontanges @anais____98
Anna Bierler @annauuannauua
Auriane Preud’homme @aurianepreudhomme
Bravas Graphix @bravas.graphix
Calli Uzza Layton @ultimate_tuna_melt
Clara Pasteau @clara_pasteau
Cleo Tsw @cleotsw
D-E-A-L @deal_eu
Elina Birkehag @elinabirkehag
Eliott Déchamboux @lile.nova
Émilie Pitoiset @emiliepitoiset
Heleen Mineur @heleenmineur
Hyo Young Chu @chuccar
Josefina Anjou @josefinamjao
Juliette Lepineau @juliettelepineau
Kimberley Cosmilla @kimberleydolores
Manon Michèle @non.assistance
Maria Paris @moldymary
Marie-Mam Sai Bellier @sai.mam
Mathis Perron @pseudoscience_17
Mia Trabalon @medium_nique
Pablo Bardinet @pablobardinet
Pays de Glossolalie @pyroliso@lena_slbrt
Philip Ullman @philipullman
Raphaël Massart @raphaelmassart
Sanae Oujjit @demo___crazy
Silvana Mc Nulty @silvana_mcnulty_
Yunie Chae @chaechup
TIME by baby reni foundation 17.05.2025-11.06.2025
“…chances are this is not your first time visiting Baby Reni Foundation. This time her curatorial approach is shaped by the temporal dimensions of her relationship with each artist, as much as by what the works themselves may reveal about the timeless condition of being alive. Alive time flies whether you are having fun or not. To see this— to truly cultivate one’s powers of attention — takes time, just like a friend takes time.”
~ excerpt of the exhibition text written by Masha Ryabova @masharyabova_
Special thanks to Fons Welters @fonsweltersgallery and Soft Opening @soft_opening for loaning me works and participating artists for their time and efforts, some works were developed especially for “TIME”