French-Swiss artist Thomas Rousset's Prabérians is a sprawling surrealistic yet tender docufiction of the agricultural working village of his childhood that examines the totemic and ritualistic aspects of rural life. As small-scale agricultural villages appear stuck in time or close to extinction, Rousset catapults Prabert into a fantastical, hallucinatory world, creating heightened moments of absurdity amongst intimate portraits and observations of daily village life.
Loose Joints collaborated closely with Rousset on editing and sequencing his eccentric images into a book that is at once rigid and surreal: with the screenprinted cover channelling the air of a forgotten brocante local history book from decades past, this upright Swiss-bound hardcover contains a fantastical 'report' on the village by writer Felix Bazalgette.
Loose Joints Publishing, 2022
160pp, 240 × 330 mm, 100 photos
Swiss-bound silkscreened buckram hardcover with gold foil
Edited by Sarah Chaplin Espenon at Loose Joints Studio
Text by Felix Bazalgette in English and French
ISBN 978-1-912719-39-6
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