Giselle's Books

Binds

with

Thomas Cap de Ville
Heike-Karin Föll
C. Heppworth
Martin Laborde
Simon Popper
Frederik Worm

22 – 26.10.2025
Paris internationale · Rond Point des Champs-Élysées, Paris

Installation view, Binds, with Thomas Cap de Ville, Heike-Karin Föll, C. Heppworth, Martin Laborde, Simon Popper, Frederik Worm Giselle’s Books at Paris Internationale, Rond-Point des Champs Élysées, Paris, 22-26 October 2025.
Thomas Cap de Ville, Book 8, 2020. 11 x 24 x 10 cm, mixed media.
Heike-Karin Föll, reference as form, 2025. 29,5 x 21,5 x 3,5 cm, paper, cardboard, fabric.
C. Heppworth, Yes, 2012-2025. 29 x 1003 x 0,3 cm, paper, tape.
Martin Laborde, Reloaded and combinatory (Magazine #2), 2024. 24 x 32 x 1 cm, mixed media.
Martin Laborde, Reloaded and combinatory (Magazine #7), 2024. 21 x 28 x 2 cm, mixed media.
Simon Popper, Disappointing Circles, 2025. 26 x 33 x 0,5 cm, acrylic, paper. Edition of 10.
Frederik Worm, Intimacies of a Continent, 2024. 23 x 30 x 4 cm, paper.
Frederik Worm, Rest No Friend (for Rune), 2025. 17 x 26 x 12 cm, paper, plastic.

Thomas Cap de Ville

Thomas Cap de Ville, lives and works in Paris.
His practice draws from the notion of inner worlds and the collection of objects as an obsession. Traces are what constitutes the primary ressource of his work to pay tribute to teenage years and young adulthood of the late nineties and early 2000 counter-culture. Accumulating souvenirs, keeping and reminding them is a way of romanticizing his own existence and celebrate life. The artist tells us in his work stories of fraternity, erotic adventures and trips under the influence. His books, photographies, drawings and movies forms his life’s archives. His installations take the form of altars, gathering these small objects that became talismans and illustrate the social organisation of a generation. His videos of nocturnal walks put on the appearence of ritual dances.
Thomas Cap de Ville started out in fashion and created videos in collaboration with various musicians such as La Chatte. His work was then part of collective projects such as at the Fondation Cartier (Paris, 2011). He inaugurated his first solo shows at Goswell Road (Paris, 2017 and 2019). In 2020 he was an artist in residence at Confort Moderne (Poitiers) where he presented his first institutional personal exhibition. His work has been shown since in solo exhibitions at Exo Exo
(Paris, 2021 and 2022) ; Galeria Miroslav Kraljevic (Zagreb, 2022) and in institutional group exhibitions at CRAC Alsace (Altkirch, 2024) ; CRÉDAC (Ivry-sur-Seine, 2024) ; Kunsthalle Praha (Prague, 2023) ; FRAC Corsica (Corte, 2023) and group shows in galleries, at Mendes Wood (Brussels, 2022) ; Colette Mariana (Barcelona, 2022) ; Galerie Hussenot (Paris, 2020).

Heike-Karin Föll

Heike-Karin Föll is a Berlin-based artist. She works with the materiality and mechanics of painting and language, treating textuality as equally a vehicle of content, a visual motif and a material form. Heike-Karin Föll’s work investigates the dissemination of visual art focusing on new media dispersion methods that aim to make her work widely accessible. Her practice includes paintings, books, prints and texts. Her work is held in several international public collections, including Museion Bozen and Fonds d’art contemporain, Paris. Her work is represented by Oskar Weiss Gallery, Zürich and Emanuela Campoli, Paris and Milano. Heike-Karin Föll is professor for Contemporary Art in Theory and Practice at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). After having degreed Fine Arts at Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and UdK Berlin, she contributed to several major exhibitions, as artist, author and curator, including documenta X in Kassel, DE (1997). She taught at Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, Merz Academy Stuttgart, Freie Universität Berlin (FU), and UdK Berlin.

C. Heppworth

C. Heppworth is an artist working with magazines. 

Martin Laborde

Martin Laborde lives and works in Nice, France.
From 2017 to 2024, his studio located in Lisbon, was hosting episodic instalments of Ampersand – a program he co-founded which has been kept in operation fostering friendships and numerous collaborations. Ampersand is currently itinerant (Ana Jotta, Marian Goodman, 2025; Jean Painlevé, Culturgest, 2024).  He is also among the three editors of the journal octopus notes.
His work has been presented recently at Mala and FarO (Lisbon), Treize (Paris) as well as with gallery Air de Paris (Romainville and Monaco). He is currently working on a publication gathering years of collages to be published by Dope Press (Los Angeles), Giselle’s Books (Marseille) and Daisy (Paris) including, among others, texts by Wayne Koestenbaum, Oscar Tuazon, and Marie Canet.

Simon Popper

Simon Popper lives and works in San Francisco, USA.
His selected solo exhibitions include Artist of the Day, selected by Rut Blees Luxemburg, Flowers Gallery, London (2018); [ear for EAR], FILET, London (2015); Mistaking Your Finger for the Moon While Pointing at It, 4 Cose, London (2014); Double show with Alessandro Raho, Hats Plus, London (2009); The most, the best, we can do, we believe (wanting to give evidence of love), is to get out of the way, leave space around whomever or whatever it is. But there is no space!, Rachmaninoff’s, London (2008); For the Birds, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome (2008); Park Night with Céline Condorelli, Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London (2008); Funguys, White Cubicle Toilet Gallery, London (2008).
Selected group exhibitions include: The Protagonist, Belmacz Gallery, London (2025); Blank. Raw. Illegible… Artists’ Books as Statements (1960-2022), Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germany (2023); Mushroom, Somerset House, London (2019); Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: 1989-2017, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2017); Bodikon, Belmacz Gallery, London (2016); Das wäre doch nicht nötig gewesen, Baeckerei, Berlin (2016); Everything is About to Happen (Porto): Artists’ Books and Editions, curated by Gregorio Magnani, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (2016); Accadrà Domani, curated by Gregorio Magnani, Museo Marino Marini, Florence (2015); The Library Vaccine, Artists Space, New York (2014); Paper, curated by Keith Coventry, SMAC Gallery, Cape Town (2014); Puppet Show, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool (2014); Everything is About to Happen, curated by Gregorio Magnani, greengrassi, London (2014); Puppet Show, curated by Tom Bloor and Céline Condorelli, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2013).

Frederik Worm

Frederik Worm is a visual artist and photographer whose practice frequently involves collaboration with other artists, writers, and musicians. His work explores the conditions under which art is produced, owned, and distributed, often challenging traditional modes of authorship and presentation. Worm works across a range of formats including slideshows, live performances, and printed matter. His recent presentations include Kunsthal 44Møen (DK, 2025), Haus am Waldsee (DE, 2025), New Theater Hollywood (US, 2025), UKS – Unge Kunstneres Samfund (NO, 2024), Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art (DK, 2024), Berlin Atonal (DE, 2023), and Cafe Oto (UK, 2023).

Giselle’s Books would like to extend its gratitude to Galerie Oskar Weiss, Exo Exo and Paris Internationale.

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