Matriochka

Fanette Mellier, 2024
32 pages, 6.5 x 8.5 cm, 6-color Pantone printing and gold hot foil stamping
Debossed canvas cover
ISBN 979-10-90475-38-0 (Third edition)
Grand Est Book Prize 2020

Matriochka is a small book that tells a very short, but very intricate story. 16 Russian dolls shrink from page to page, the last one measuring only a few millimeters high. Fanette Mellier invites us to explore this multicolored family in microscopic detail. Observed under a magnifying glass, the ordinarily imperceptible details of the printing become the motifs that cover the tiny figurines. This book, in which hot gilding skips a generation, speaks of singularity and transmission.