Federico Nicolao - L’Assemblée des écritures
Book Launch
April 29, 2026
6 PM - 8 PM
A world, with all its complexity and contradictions: this is what emerges from the research project "L’Assemblée des écritures" carried out at ECAL / the Lausanne School of Art.
Conceived as a shared space for writing and reflection, this "Assemblée" explores contemporary forms of text and their relationship with the visual arts.
Conceived within the deliberately tight timeframe of a year of collective work, punctuated by exchanges, experiments and the comparison of practices, this publication embraces the speed of its production as the embodiment of a necessity: to respond to the shared urgency to write and think.
Edited by Federico Nicolao
With texts by Emmanuel Alloa, Luc Andrié, Gabriela Carneiro de Cunha, Mariacristina Cavagnoli, Zoé Cornelius, Roberto Cuoghi, Marcelline Delbecq, Suzanne Doppelt, Lucas Erin, Mathilde Girard, Donatien Grau, Alain Guiraudie, Yannick Haenel, Koo Jeong A, Angèle Metzger, Stéphanie Moisdon, Federico Nicolao, Gaelle Obiégly, Valentina Parati, Chiara Parisi, Alice Peach, Fabienne Raphoz, Camille de Toledo, Francesca Torzo, Carmen Toselli, Franco Toselli, Haytham el-Wardany, Shirin Yousefi, Hanns Zischler
Images by Micol Assaël, Mathias Augustyniak, Mariacristina Cavagnoli, Zoé Cornelius, Roberto Cuoghi, Tacita Dean, Elein Fleiss, Linda Fregni Nagler, Michel Hamburger, Koo Jeong A, Jochen Lempert, Angèle Metzger, Alice Peach, Camille de Toledo, Francesca Torzo, Shirin Yousefi
Graphic designers: Giliane Cachin and Hans Frauchiger
2026
16 × 24 × 2.5 cm
Paperback
380 pages
57 colour reproductions
27 black-and-white reproductions
ISBN: 9782490505852
Published with the support of ECAL / Lausanne University of Art and Design and HES-SO / University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland
© Manuella Éditions
Description
Book Launch
April 29, 2026
6 PM - 8 PM
A world, with all its complexity and contradictions: this is what emerges from the research project "L’Assemblée des écritures" carried out at ECAL / the Lausanne School of Art.
Conceived as a shared space for writing and reflection, this "Assemblée" explores contemporary forms of text and their relationship with the visual arts.
Conceived within the deliberately tight timeframe of a year of collective work, punctuated by exchanges, experiments and the comparison of practices, this publication embraces the speed of its production as the embodiment of a necessity: to respond to the shared urgency to write and think.
Edited by Federico Nicolao
With texts by Emmanuel Alloa, Luc Andrié, Gabriela Carneiro de Cunha, Mariacristina Cavagnoli, Zoé Cornelius, Roberto Cuoghi, Marcelline Delbecq, Suzanne Doppelt, Lucas Erin, Mathilde Girard, Donatien Grau, Alain Guiraudie, Yannick Haenel, Koo Jeong A, Angèle Metzger, Stéphanie Moisdon, Federico Nicolao, Gaelle Obiégly, Valentina Parati, Chiara Parisi, Alice Peach, Fabienne Raphoz, Camille de Toledo, Francesca Torzo, Carmen Toselli, Franco Toselli, Haytham el-Wardany, Shirin Yousefi, Hanns Zischler
Images by Micol Assaël, Mathias Augustyniak, Mariacristina Cavagnoli, Zoé Cornelius, Roberto Cuoghi, Tacita Dean, Elein Fleiss, Linda Fregni Nagler, Michel Hamburger, Koo Jeong A, Jochen Lempert, Angèle Metzger, Alice Peach, Camille de Toledo, Francesca Torzo, Shirin Yousefi
Graphic designers: Giliane Cachin and Hans Frauchiger
2026
16 × 24 × 2.5 cm
Paperback
380 pages
57 colour reproductions
27 black-and-white reproductions
ISBN: 9782490505852
Published with the support of ECAL / Lausanne University of Art and Design and HES-SO / University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland
© Manuella Éditions
