Marguerite Duras: A Visual Exploration
This body of work is a multi-format response to the writing and world of Marguerite Duras. It spans editorial design, illustration, custom type design, bookbinding, moving image and experimental print. From quiet, intimate layouts to tactile, handmade objects, each piece reflects on her language, rhythm and atmosphere, echoing her fragmented narratives and evocative silences through visual form.
This body of work is a multi-format response to the writing and world of Marguerite Duras. It spans editorial design, illustration, custom type design, bookbinding, moving image and experimental print. From quiet, intimate layouts to tactile, handmade objects, each piece reflects on her language, rhythm and atmosphere, echoing her fragmented narratives and evocative silences through visual form.
LOLA VALÉRIE STEIN & ANNE-MARIE STRETTER
Personal books portraying two central female characters from the work of Marguerite Duras. Each character is depicted as a dried flower in a fictional herbarium.
The books are entirely handmade. I sourced vintage photo albums from flea markets, printed the texts on glassine paper once used to protect photographs, and bound each book by hand. The pencil illustrations add a quiet, intimate layer to this tactile homage to Duras’ world.
HIROSHIMA TYPEFACE
Custom typeface inspired by Hiroshima mon amour, the 1959 film by Alain Resnais with a screenplay by Marguerite Duras. The font captures the film’s haunting tone and fragmented structure — a typographic response to its emotional rhythm, silence, and repetition.
Hiroshima mon amour concerns a series of conversations over a 36-hour long period between a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva), referred to as Her, and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada), referred to as Him. They have had a brief relationship and are now separating.
The two debate memory and forgetfulness as She prepares to depart, comparing failed relationships with the bombing of Hiroshima and the perspectives of people inside and outside the incidents.
BOOK COVERS DESIGN
A series of book covers for works by Marguerite Duras, including Moderato Cantabile, Détruire, dit-elle, Hiroshima mon amour, Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein and La Vie matérielle.
Each cover is built from scanned, symbolic materials directly linked to the narratives: a wine glass stain for Moderato Cantabile, a saw blade for Détruire, dit-elle, and other tactile traces that echo the texture and tension of Duras’ writing.
MAGAZINE
Layout and cover design for the Belgian cultural and pluridisciplinary magazine Projections.
The relationship to the world that characterizes our time in our culture is marked by uncertainty and plurality, which have gradually collapsed manyof the landmarks that once stabilized our identities.
