Typhaine Le Monnier: Playtime

Book / Arnoldsche Monograph

Published: 18.08.2026

Text by:: Cristina Filipe, Doreen Timmers, Julia Wild

Edited by:: Arnoldsche Art Publishers

Edited at:: Stuttgart

Edited on:: 2026

Technical data:: 96 pages 17 x 24 cm, 71 ills. Swiss binding. English / German

ISBN / ISSN:: 978-3-89790-764-5

Price:: from 28 €

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Playtime is the first Typhaine Le Monnier monograph. Playtime unfolds like a theatrical performance: prologue, acts, interlude, epilogue. The pieces become characters on stages designed by the artist. Yet play is no escape—it is a method of survival, a way to sit with discomfort and keep creating despite uncertainty.

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Typhaine Le Monnier (b. 1980, Paris).
In Typhaine Le Monnier’s atelier, work never stops. Hands move instinctively while the mind circles around unresolved questions, shaping forms from fragments, discarded jewels and fleeting ideas. What appears repetitive gradually reveals a deep, evolving investigation into form and meaning. Repetition exposes the resistance of materials: the fragility of stone, the stubbornness of metal and the limits of turning thought into matter.

Le Monnier’s practice is fuelled by the fraught tension between failure and discovery, doubt and intuition. Her work wavers between jewellery and sculpture, intimacy and collectivity, questioning the ways in which we inhabit the world and the role objects play within it. At times, the creative process itself is elevated to the status of artwork, revealing the artist’s performative practice, where the ‘in-between’ takes centre stage.