Itinéraires Fantômes is an oracle deck created by Alexandra Grant with Hélène Cixous in celebration of H. Cixous' work.
The
Itinéraires Fantômes deck consists of 72 cards in six categories: animots, creatures, and entities that include Those from Below, Those from Above, Those Who Fly/Steal, who travel via Portals, manipulate Messages and Symbols, and have Superpowers. The cards are accompanied by a booklet in English and French.
The images on these cards come from family, friends, and artists who have been inspired by Hélène Cixous' writing. Artists include:
Adel Abdessemed, Pierre Alechinsky, Sara Barker, Gabrielle Berger,
Louise Bourgeois, Leonardo Bravo, Maria Bussmann,
Sarah Cain, Lewis Carroll, Bertrand Charneau, Maria Chevska, Michael Kennedy Costa, Laura Darbutaitė, Tacita Dean, Edgar Fabián Frías, Jeffrey Gibson, Francisco Goya,
Alexandra Grant, Mathew Hale,
Simon Hantaï, Johanna Hedva,
Roni Horn, Victor Hugo, Hanna Hur,
Franz Kafka, YeRin Kim,
Lynn Marie Kirby, Jean-Jacques Lemêtre,
Colin Lemoine,
Laure Prouvost, Elsa Prudent, Addy Rabinovitch,
Keanu Reeves, Cindy Rehm, Saranya Siegel-Berger, Shinique Smith, Nancy Spero,
Luc Tuymans, Unyimeabasi Udoh, Roger Viollet, Anna Winger.
Published in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition at the
CAPC Bordeaux in 2024, curated by Marion Vasseur Raluy and Ana Iwataki.
2nd edition (December 2024).
Alexandra Grant (born 1973 in Fairview Park, Ohio, lives and works in Los Angeles) is a contemporary mixed media artist whose body of work includes painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video, and publishing. Her art is characterized by an interdisciplinary fascination with language as image, particularly in embodying the written word. Described a s a "writer who writes with materials" and "a radical collaborator," Grant engages with the work of writers, poets, philosophers and linguists including Sophocles, Wisława Szymborska, Michael Joyce,
Hélène Cixous, and
Keanu Reeves. Grant has exhibited in museums and galleries around the world, and her works are in museum collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, and others. Grant co-founded, with Keanu Reeves,
X Artists' Books and runs the grantLOVE project, which supports artists and arts education through the sale of art editions.
Hélène Cixous (born 1937 in Oran) is a French writer, writer, playwright, poet, literary critic, philosopher and teacher. A leading figure in feminism, is the author of a major body of work comprising almost seventy works of fiction and essays.
