Mémoires de Séthi Premier 1983

Felt, silk, molded pigmented paper pulp — H. 10 x L. 28 x W. 18 cm — Collection Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec, Canada.

(…) “ As for Michelle Héon, her Mémoires de Séthi Premier are a transcription, in the field of books, of her research on the paper material even used for her sculptures-paintings. The total absence of text in this book, to be leafed also, does not alter in any way the referential character of the object to one of the most respectable manifestations of the literature; on the contrary, it reinforces the artist’s allusion to the imperfection of memory. [… ] the link with the book is preserved by one element or the other: the form, the text, the title, the symbol, the obligatory condition of their acquisition by a library.”

© Regard sur les collections de la Bibliothèque nationale du Québec 1987, excerpt from French text, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.