Michaël Barek – Trucs

What does it mean to collect what others discard? To turn street waste into visual poetry, fetish, or evidence of urban decay?

Trucs is a book that shouldn’t exist—and yet, here it is. Shot and assembled by Michaël Barek, with texts by Mehdi Belhouaïchat, this 84-page object is part photo essay, part anthropological drift through the sidewalks of Paris and its suburbs. Every item featured was found on the street. Every photo is a relic of someone else’s trash—reframed as testimony.

Edited by Éditions Temps Libre in just 50 copies (10 of which come signed and with additional prints), Trucs is as useless as it is unsettling. It’s a tribute to compulsion, perversity, and the chaotic beauty of the everyday. Call it voyeurism, call it a manifesto against good taste—either way, Trucs sticks.

Come discover it on May 22 at Le Grand Jeu bookstore. No need to bring gloves—we’ve already done the dirty work.

📅 Thursday, May 22
🕐 6:00 PM – 8:O0 PM
📍 Librairie Le Grand Jeu