THE TAROT OF CHIMERAS
COLLECTIF KIMERA
Shaping the packaging of the Tarot of Chimeras.
Created for the exhibition, 'Læ Fol, l’Aube et l’Étoile', featuring five queer artists from Collectif Kimera, this deck of 20 cards is the collaborative result of artists Yel K. Banto, Tristan Bartolini, Camille Bellmas, Vincent Grange and Hsuan Lee. Together, they set out to revisit and embody the archetypes of the traditional Tarot, creating this object as an extension of their collective exhibition.
For some of them, the tarot is an everyday tool. But beyond that, looking at the tarot served a way to bring their individual artistic practices into dialogue, which explores their queer identities. The twenty-two major arcana of the tarot present a palette of archetypes and symbols that, according to these artists, intrinsically convey an obvious queerness — The Fool is a figure on the fringes of society, the angels are entities far beyond the male/female binary, the omnipresent water in the cards is a symbol of their fluidity, and the chimaeras occupying this deck are mythical embodiments of the plurality of bodies.
Project : tarot of chimeras
Object : packaging
Date : june 2024
Lieu : Espace Dukat, Carouge GE
Photos : France Bellmas and Maude Renevier