A groundsman drags his line across an empty clay court, yellow balls scattered around him like punctuation. Simon Bailly gives the quiet minutes of a tennis tournament the space a match usually takes.
That clay red carries a whole wall on its own. We like that the champion is nowhere in the picture — only the person who tidies up afterwards.
Risograph-printed in Lyon by KIBLIND Atelier, the print studio attached to the French illustration magazine KIBLIND, on Munken Print White paper. Risography is a semi-artisanal process: colours, flat areas and screens shift slightly from one copy to the next, so no two prints are quite identical.
A3 is a standard frame size, so framing costs the price of a frame and ten minutes. We hang these in threes above a desk, or lean one on a shelf and change it when the mood turns. It arrives flat, wrapped, with a rigid board behind it.
