Hélène David, Buru Beltza (Têtes noires)

Buru Beltza (Têtes noires)

Hélène David

Publisher
sun/sun éditions
Year
2026
ISBN
979-10-95233-61-9
Specifications
School binding with red thread
166 x 25 cm
152 pages
Three covers (Gmund Ardoise embossed / Materica Verdigris / Arena Ivory Smooth)
Arena Natural Bulk 90 gsm and 8 pages Ibo One 60 gsm
Four-colour offset, 100 colour images plus archive material
15 texts in French
Poems in Basque translated into French
Afterword and haiku by Itxaro Borda
Design: Typical. Organization for standards & order
Photoengraving: Guillaume Geneste, La chambre noire
Published for the summer solstice

Here, the ground is epidermis, a fertile space of porosity between animals, humans, mountains, plants, rivers, ancestors and meteors. Peasant voices and bodies emerge. Here, the Basque Country.

Photographs, collection of archives and collection of words, these fragments of reality come together in 12 polyphonies+1 to weave an imaginary score. Here, the worlds of the visible and the invisible, the buried and the surface, come together in a cycle of life and death.

Têtes Noires/Buru Beltza thus sketches a geopoetic of the territory and takes a carnal look at a peasant way of inhabiting the land.

Here, an echo of the doubts that mark our contemporary worlds in other geographies.

3 covers (Gmund Slate embossed / Materica Verdigris / Arena Ivory Smooth)

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