Lizzy Mercier Descloux: Desiderata stool initially commissioned by the KW

initially commissioned by the KW Institute for Contemporary Art

Ilaria Bussoni

Andrew Kreps Gallery

Series of 20

Incantation

Lizzy Mercier Descloux: Desiderata stool initially commissioned by the KWInpatient Press, 2022, Tte bche softcover, 114 pages, 22 12. 5 cm Desiderata is a collection of Lizzy Mercier Descloux's poetry, photos, and diaristic fragments from her visit to New York City in the winter of 1977. Only eighteen at the time, Descloux fell into the orbits of the nascent No Wave scene festering in Lower Manhattan, where she befriended Richard Hell, Patti Smith, and ZE Records founder Michel Esteban. Desiderata charts the musician's