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Gris Lumineux
Gerhard Richter, Seestück, 1970.
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Légère, la mer bouge. Le moutonnement des vagues berce et gronde le temps, qui s’écoule, s’écoule, au bruit de l’écume qui se dissout. Les vagues, elles, se brisent pour ensuite se reconstruire dans cet...
The Inseparables?
Friendship meant everything to me as a child. My best childhood friend recently sent me a letter in which she wrote that she thinks of me as a sibling. Perhaps this is what lifelong friendship feels like: an ease and acceptance that grow fr...
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the paper drop is a publication about modern and contemporary art, literature and philosophy.
I’m Alexandra Blaison, a writer and art historian based in Paris. My essays move between fragments, images and stories, bringing artists, poets,...
The Conditions of Meaning
Sanya Kantarovsky, Reenactment, 2026. © Sanya Kantarovsky. Photo: Pierre Le Hors
In an enchanted landscape, a figure lies beside a stream. One arm is bent, the head resting on a palm with long, fine fingers. Among the surrounding vegetatio...
Thinking About Dance with Five Artists
The first breathable air of the season has brought a reprieve to Paris. From the terraces, the clamour of people drinking and talking reverberates through the streets. In certain squares, on summer afternoons or in the early hours of the we...
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