La valise égyptienne is an artist book that documents a collection of ceramic objects from Egypt. These carry lived or invented stories, just like souvenirs brought back from travels. Oscillating between documentary photography and fiction writing, the book plays with different forms of representation, addressing questions around the construction of identity and the materialization of memory, truth and falsification, and the existence of things between worlds.

La valise égyptienne is in two parts: first the text (a collection of short stories), and second a 5-metre-long leporello with the photographs of the ceramic objects, taken by the Ethnographic Museum in Geneva.

La valise égyptienne Noha Mokhtar & Lucas Uhlman
With photographs by Johnathan Watts/MEG

Special Edition printed on letterpress at the Institut Français d`Archéologie Orientale, Cairo
Leporello printed at Offsetdruckerei Karl Grammlich, Pliezhausen
Available in six different colors
CHF/EUR 150.-