MISTER K: BETWEEN REALITY, FICTION, AND MEMORY
21/08/2025
In this episode, we meet visual artist Sylvie Meunier. Her book Mister K (Atelier EXB) blurs the lines between reality, fiction, and memory a conversation between words and images, memories and inner exploration.
Visual artist Sylvie Meunier collects vernacular photographs, material that she appropriates and reappropriates to construct imaginary narratives. In Mister K, Sylvie Meunier combines her image collection work with fictional writing for the first time, playing with the photographic codes of black and white and the narrative codes of detective novels.
Her story immerses the reader in an atmosphere that is part crime novel, part autofiction. The narrator is fleeing from what we assume to be a traumatic event: like a road movie, as he travels along highways and stays in motels, he recounts his childhood memories and those of a beloved woman who has mysteriously disappeared…
In this “photographic novel,” which alternates between images and textual asides, Sylvie Meunier weaves a plot that borders on the fantastical. Genres blend together to create a unique work: at once a book of photographs, a literary narrative, a cinematic fiction, and a psychological investigation.
“Mister K is a back-and-forth between text and photography.”
SYLVIE MEUNIER
“It’s a book, but I also constructed it like a film.”
SYLVIE MEUNIER
