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The Centre des livres d’artistes (cdla) is the home of a growing collection of artists’ books and an exhibition space dedicated exclusively to this type of publications. The cdla is based in the centre of France, in St Yrieix la Perche, forty kilometers south west of Limoges, a region famous for its porcelain and the last home of Raoul Hausmann who died there in 1971.

The sixty-one videos, each titled Les Allumeuses, 1998–2010, with a subtitle, are static shots of neat piles of magazine clippings on a brick hearth. Each video, tightly framing a stack of cuttings, shows a hand picking up a picture from the pile and immediately taking it off camera. We hear it being crumpled. And we hear the fire it has just fed. Picture by picture, the pile diminishes until it’s gone.