Join us at Veranda Books for the launch of Blackout by Yann Chateigné Tytelman, translated by Clem Clement. Clem and Yann will discuss the book and its translation. Drinks will be available.

Blackout is a brief, intense, fragmentary account of silence and darkness in visual art, music, literature and philosophy. The writing juxtaposes essayistic observations with an emotionally-charged letter to the father, dead for 10 years, exploring an increasingly elusive bond: a laconic childhood, the son’s rejection of his working-class background and the loss of his father to dementia.

Yann Chateigné Tytelman is a French author and curator living in Brussels. He has been a curator at the KANAL-Centre Pompidou Brussels, head of the Visual Arts Dept at HEAD in Geneva and chief curator at CAPC in Bordeaux, among other positions. He is a guest lecturer in the Curatorial Studies programme at KASK & Conservatorium, Gent. In 2023, he co-founded Celador, and art space run by a reading group collective in Brussels.

Clem Clement is a translator from French whose first published translation was a chapter from the poly-translation Chicanes by Clara Schulmann (2023). Further to a degree in French and Farsi from the University of Oxford, Clem now lives in London and works for a variety of literary indies, including Les Fugitives.

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