THOMAS DUCROCQ
Tendre Alumine

Tendre Alumine documents Focus on contemporary publishing, an exhibition of the Postfirebooks’ catalog, which took place in June 2025 at the Espace de l’Art Concret in Mouans-Sartoux, France. Throught this event, Postfirebooks was able to delve deeper into its ongoing researchs about publishing practices and the presence of bookforms in exhibition spaces.

The publishing house, invited to exhibit its catalog in the art center’s spaces, proposes a break with the conventional ways of showing books in which publications are placed at a distance from their audience. Postfirebooks proposes modular display stands, installed within the space, that encourage close interaction with the publications and their manipulation—thus questioning the interactivity between readership/visitors and publications/artworks within the context of their distribution/exhibition.

Both a mediation tool about the show and a documentary photography book, Tendre Alumine is a meta-publication which present Postfirebooks through its research topics and the installation shown during the Focus on contemporary publishing. It is also the prequel to an ongoing project, Journal de Maintenance (in english, Maintenance Log), a forthcoming publication whose text has been read at the Espace de l’Art Concret.

PAGES
74
FORMAT 
19 x 28cm

TEXT & EDITORIAL DESIGN
Thomas Ducrocq
CURATION EXHIBITION “FOCUS”
Inès d’Ersu
PRINTING
Postfirebooks, Montpellier
BINDING
Thomas Ducrocq
Nicolas Martin
PAPERS
Munken Print White 150g
Munken Print White 80g

SUPPLIES & LOGISTICS
Marc Ducrocq
HELP ON DEVICES DESIGN 
Nicolas Morel
3D MODEL
Colombe Delacoste
3D PRINTING
Michel Martin
PHOTOGRAPHY
Thomas Ducrocq
Nesrine Salem

ISBN 978-2-9592778-8-7
October 2025

All rights reserved.
©postfirebooks ; for the edition.
©Thomas Ducrocq ; for the texts and the images.