Centre d’édition contemporaine Geneva

T. Freakson Calame
SCATOFICTION

T. Freakson Calame, SCATOFICTION, Before publication 13, brochure, black/white, colour, 32 pages, – single booklet, 17,2 × 23,5 cm, offset, stapled binding, 250 copies – published in the Before publication collection, which gathers the pre-publications of authors’ texts or artists’ inserts, which will appear regularly and as a preview before the final publication, L’Effet papillon II (second volume of L’Effet papillon, 1989 – 2007, catalogue of the Centre d’édition contemporaine published in 2008). Graphic design: Niels Wehrspann, Lausanne. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2025. ISBN: 978-2-9701916-3-6

CHF 20.-

The thirteenth Before publication is a fictional text by Geneva based artist Timothée Calame aka T. Freakson Calame, exhibited at the Centre d’édition contemporaine in 2019. It is a collection of short stories that follow the urban wanderings of a protagonist through a series of unlikely events and encounters. In a stifling, paranoid atmosphere, each of the settings is the site of a threat to the main character, who drags along an existential malaise, coming up against the constraints dictated by absurd social conventions, as well as the floating, off-the-ground individuals who stand sentinel.

This text retraces Calame’s interests: the city and its nooks and crannies, urban planning and its underlying political stakes, the cultural industry and its accesses. By describing an environment that is both coercive and deliquescent, it questions the influence of these public spaces on our behaviour in society, regulated by underlying codes and rules that constitute a surveillance system. SCATOFICTION conveys a sense of dereliction, a generalized state of economic and cultural precariousness, the effect of a power that favours individualism over the creation of a mutualistic, communitarian society, leaving each individual to his or her own solitude.

Timothée Calame was born in Geneva in 1991, where he lives and works. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions, such as : A Spring in Endophasia, Weiss Falk, Zurich (2023) ; Interiority in 2022, Edouard Montassut, Paris (2022) ; Transit Times, Weiss Falk, Basel (2021) ; Altera, Centre d‘édition Contemporaine, Geneva (2019). His recent group exhibitions include: Great Works, Galerie Oskar Weiss, Zurich (2025) ; Récits de collection, MAMCO, Geneva (2023) ; Watercolours, Chapter III, XYZ, Tokyo (2023) ; Found Refined Refound, Weiss Falk at Eva Presenhuber, New York (2023) ; Horizones – 23e Prix Fondation Pernod Ricard, Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris (2022) ; DON’T SAY I DIDN’T SAY SO, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld (2022) ; Môtiers 2021 – Art en Plein Air, Môtiers (2021) ; Kiefer Hablitzel | Göhner Kunstpreis 2020, Kunsthaus Langenthal (2021).

Cristina Ricupero
Curating Monsters