In the Realm of Motes

Baptiste Gaillard has exhibited installations and objects in galleries and art spaces in Switzerland and Europe. Language has gradually become the subject of his work, and he has since regularly published his texts in magazines, as well as six books, including Un domaine des corpuscules (Hippocampe é ditions, Swiss Literature Prize in 2018), Ombres blanches sur fond presque blanc (2020), and Un test de fragilité (2024). His work explores the thresholds of the sensible and tells of materials and transient states, like the condensation on a window that disappears as soon as it is imprinted. Aditi Machado is a poet, translator, and essayist. Her books include a translation of Farid Tali's novel Prosopopoeia (Action, 2016) and the poetry collections from Nightboat: Material Witness (2024), Emporium (2020; James Laughlin Award), and Some Beheadings (2017; The Believer Poetry Award). She is also a contributor Katrine Ø gaard Jensen and Ursula Andkjæ r's mistranslation project Ancient Algorithms forthcoming from Sarabande Books. She lives and works in Cincinnati, Ohio.