J’ai perdu ma tête

Peter Granser
J’ai perdu ma tête


The first artist book of Peter Granser with Edition Taube is based on his work “J’ai perdu ma tête” realized in 2009 in the closed ward “2c” of the psychiatric clinic “Centre hospitalier spécialisé de Navarre à Évreux” in France.

Awarded with the Most Beautiful German Books Award 2014

“There are words that sound too narrow and finite, underlying the real nature and complexity of their meaning, words that are nothing but codes, in an exercise of comfortable simplification. ‘Insanity’ is one of them. Peter Granser opens countless windows on a world that is unknown – and consequently feared, set aside, intentionally or not but perhaps for the specific purpose that forgets its existence – and he does so by replacing words with photography. The first communication is what we put in place for ourselves when we try to interpret what is around us, even before we attempt any form of sharing, and words come later, to rethink what is the origin of our own experience, that is purely perceptual. It is when words fail, when they cannot be lined up and rearranged, that we feel inadequate when facing a world where we think we don’t belong, while it is our own world, though ruled by a logic that is much more simple and basic as to be disarming.(...)”

4c offset print, spot finish
3 inserted leporello posters
32 x 23 cm
ISBN 978-3-9814518-6-3