Le Grand Jeu

Le Grand Jeu is delighted to host the Paris launch of Future Language of the Ikonoklast, a landmark publication celebrating one of Britain’s most radical and influential post-graffiti collectives. Join us on Thursday, October 23, for an evening with Remi Rough and art enthusiasts around this long-awaited book. Edited by Remi Rough and published by […]

From Milan to Paris, art director and designer Paolo Proserpio lands at Le Grand Jeu for a special afternoon — exploring two decades of underground record design, DIY aesthetics, and visual experiments born from the music scene. To celebrate the release of Dishes: A Selection of Record Covers and Weird Vinyl Packaging, Paolo will present […]

Conceived by Frank Wuko as a true jam session, Skript Letter Jam returns for its third edition at Le Grand Jeu bookstore with Pierre Oked, Adèle Zabé, and Namaste, ready to improvise on a large shared format while experimenting with new tools, surfaces, and constraints. Born from the desire to celebrate the art of the […]

Born from a restless gaze and an unrelenting need to capture the fleeting, Survive Bitch is Jezekaël Clavaressa’s first fanzine — a raw archive of images where irony collides with empathy, beauty emerges from neglect, and survival becomes an act of resistance. From compulsive clothing-making to scriptwriting, from music to photography, Clavaressa’s practice is one […]

Conceived as a moving tribute to graffiti photography, With One Eye Open brings to the screen the images that made graffiti travel the world and the projects where the photograph itself becomes the ultimate work. First launched as an exhibition in Eindhoven in 2024, the series has since toured across Europe with screenings and talks, […]

Behind every concert poster, album cover, or band T-shirt are passionate people from all walks of life. Their visuals aren’t just about looking good — they support, connect, and give music its true identity. That’s the spirit of Unfiltered Punk Creativity Vol. 1, a new book published by Wraith! Press. Through interviews, essays, and powerful […]

Drifting through squats, punk gigs, courtrooms and factory shifts, Wazo delivers a raw, fast-paced memoir of life on the margins in 1990s Brest — a city as gritty as it is poetic. In Pour tout l’or de Brest, he recounts his wild youth as a “clown, delinquent and tightrope walker,” caught between rebellion and survival, […]

Papermundi, together with Driver, bring us the first French translation of Game Over, the raw and unfiltered memoir of Harlem’s legendary drug lord, Azie Faison. At just 21, Faison was earning over half a million dollars a week. But by 1990, he had left the drug trade behind, determined to tell his story — long […]

What do monikers, anti-fascist censorship, imaginary birds, and cinephile graffiti have in common? All are part of the sprawling and unconventional Fonds documentaire de l’Amicale du Hibou-Spectateur — a collective archive exploring forms of “wild” writing in public space. The Owl-Watcher Society (Amicale du Hibou-Spectateur) is an informal research group launched in 2021 by Jiem […]

Graffiti wasn't always celebrated. In the 80s and 90s, it was criminalized, erased, and dismissed as "vandalism." And yet, this raw, illegal energy was the spark behind many of today's most respected urban artists. With Vandalisme, Tarek Ben Yakhlef — author of the cult book Paris Tonkar (1991, reprinted in 2024) — returns to the […]

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 […]