Quelques Corps Favorables. B. Nemer

Quelques Corps Favorables
Benny Nemer

BOOKS WILL SHIP IN JULY 2026

2026
18 x 24 cm
96 pages
Perfect bound
French & English
First Edition

Text and mise-en-scène: Benny Nemer
Photography: Hervé Bossy
Translation: Nathanaël
Design: Bureau Clément Wibaut

This publication was made with the support of KASK & Conservatorium and the Canada Council for the Arts

“Dear Hervé, I visited your library. Christine let me see it; she has kept your books in her home near the Parc Montsouris since you died. My friend Nathanaël, who translated your diaries into English, put us in contact. Perhaps you already know all about it.”

Quelques Corps Favorables traces the serpentine contours of Benny Nemer’s long term entanglement with the postcard collection of photographer and writer Hervé Guibert, which were allegedly distributed among his friends after his 1991 death from AIDS. The publication takes a cue from Guibert’s 1980 roman photo Suzanne et Louise, pairing a handwritten letter written with a vast series of black and white photographs to tell a story of generational rupture and bonds of queer kinship forged in the long shadow cast by the AIDS crisis.

Benny Nemer is a Montreal-born artist, diarist, and researcher based in Paris. He is the grandchild of Quebec potter Rosalie Namer (1925–2006), whose artistic kinship instilled in him an early aesthetic sensibility that included an appreciation of objects, a practice of epistolary writing, and a sympathy with flowers. His multidisciplinary practice often traces the affective contours of love and longing while facilitating bonds of kinship between his audience, figures from history, and himself, taking form through audio work, performance, participatory actions, epistolary writing, and flower arranging. Benny is a docent and postdoctoral researcher at KASK & Conservatorium.

Hervé Guibert was a French novelist, photographer, and photography critic. In 1977, he began writing a column about photography for Le Monde, and worked as the newspaper’s chief photo critic until 1985, writing about artists, writers, and philosophers such as Patrice Chéreau, Roland Barthes, Isabelle Adjani, Michel Foucault, Miquel Barceló, and Sophie Calle. He wrote more than twenty-five novels and short narratives, always in the first person. His 1990 novel To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life brought him media acclaim and public notoriety for its thinly veiled portrait of his friend Michel Foucault and played a significant role in changing public attitudes in France toward AIDS. Alongside his writing, Guibert produced a corpus of photographic works, often documenting himself, his friends and lovers, and the sites where his creative and relational life took place: his Paris apartment, the Villa de Medici in Rome, and the Italian island of Elba. Guibert died of AIDS in 1991.

STANDARD EDITION
40€ ︎︎
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POSTCARD EDITION - €65 ︎︎
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- 5 postcards (5 postcards of images from the book)}

ARTIST POSTCARD COLLECTION EDITION - €100 ︎︎
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- 5 postcards from the private collection of the artist, inscribed with a personal, handwritten message}

SPECIAL EDITION 1 - €450 ︎︎
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_{- Silver gelatin handprint by Hervé Bossy on baryta warmtone paper, signed and numbered. 13x20cm image on 18x24cm paper.}

SPECIAL EDITION 2 - €450 ︎︎
_{Edition of 10}
_{- Book}
_{- Silver gelatin handprint by Hervé Bossy on baryta warmtone paper, signed and numbered. 13x20cm image on 18x24cm paper.}

SPECIAL EDITION 3 - €450 ︎︎
_{Edition of 10}
_{- Book}
_{- Silver gelatin handprint by Hervé Bossy on baryta warmtone paper, signed and numbered. 13x20cm image on 18x24cm paper.}

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Quelques Corps Favorables
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