Since their meeting in 2008, photographer Erica Baum and writer-artist Marcelline Delbecq have engaged in an ongoing exchange, each maintaining a deep and evolving interest in the other’s practice.

Through their discussions and joint events at the Malmö Art Museum, the Albertine Bookstore in New York, and the Fondation Cartier in Paris, they have developed an endless conversation. This dialogue is revisiting key themes such as: How do they perceive the world around them? How do they engage with the urban landscapes of New York and Paris? Why their interest in Japan? What image collections inform their thoughts? How do they use text in their work?

About the speakers:

Erica Baum
Living and working in New York, Erica Baum is known for her photographic work that blends text and image, using found printed materials such as paperback books, library indexes, and sewing patterns from women’s magazines.

She holds an MFA from Yale University School of Art (1994) and a BA in Anthropology from Barnard College (1984). Her works are included in prestigious collections, such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA (New York), SFMoMA (San Francisco), CNAP (Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris), frac île-de-france (Paris), and MAMCO (Geneva).

Marcelline Delbecq
Marcelline Delbecq is a writer-artist, translator, and doctoral graduate of the SACRe program at École Normale Supérieure PSL.

After studying photography in the United States and fine arts and art criticism in France, she moved away from material production to focus on the narrative potential to create images. Her texts may be recorded, read publicly, or published. She is the author of Envolée (Fléchette collection, Sun/sun, 2023), Camera (Ugly Duckling Presse, New York, 2019), Dialogue (with Ellie Ga, Shelter Press, 2017), Oublier, voir (Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain and Manuella éditions, 2015), and Silence trompeur (Manuella éditions, 2015).

She also contributes to publications such as AOC, Roven, Les Carnets du Paysage, and The Art Newspaper, and teaches in art, landscape, and design schools.

The event took place at the Amphithéâtre des Loges in Paris on  Tuesday, November 12, 2024.