Muse de la Mmoire PROPRIT UNIVERSELLE

This artist's book, a catalogue of a museum without walls, reads like an account of a work under construction in response to a commission in a former coalfield. Jolle Tuerlinckx guides us through the studios archives, and through the development of a thought process and culminates in the inventory of the M.M. collection (Muse de la Mmoire or Museum of Memory). Building on the great classic of the inventory catalogue and encompassing 'all of J.T.'s work', she presents 'a museum in itself'. While the book is originally connected to 'La Triangulaire de Cransac', a monumental work of art in the small town of Aveyron, France, it also puts into perspective the evolution of the museum in its relationship with the artist and the book. Jolle Tuerlinckx reminds us that if the museum is compared to a book because of its internal organisation, then a book can be compared to a museum because of its systematics and its method of contemplating the object. Text in French. Introduction and colophon translated into English.