= Comprises: 1. Catalogue 2001 Artist’Books Bookworks (self-published overview of Kermaire’s artist’s book publications, coloured illustrations and descriptions, 1982-2001, original sewn plastic cover in nylon carrier-bag decorated by the artist, in original artist’s sewn contained air sleeve)2. DNA Collector Book. Live can damage your health./ Livre Collecteur d’AND. Vivre peut nuite à votre santé (2010, signed, unnumbered)3. I listen to the snow shrouding me forever./ Ik luister naar de sneeuw die me eeuwig begraaft./ J’écoute la neige m’enselvir, infiniment (American Military Cemetery and Memorial Henri-Chapelle, Belgium) (2010, 300 copies (no.89), book (36) pages, colour-photogr. ills., 3 plasticized photographs of art installations, original DVD with autograph manuscript text in original plastic case, all in artist made cloth portfolio, quarto, in original artist’s sewn contained air sleeve)2. Euthanasia In Kit Form (2011, unnumbered)3. Memory of Al-Mutanabbi Street (2012, 300 copies (no.4), 3 booklets in wooden envelope/ portfolio, autograph note. With the original printed project invitation letter by Beau Beausoleil)4. Tea Book “Expurgated” (2013; 300 copies (no.4), autograph note. KBR holds a copy)5. Strokephone. Brain, phone, interface. Uploading knowledge in the human brain (2014, 300 copies (no.6), with autograph artist card/ artwork/ notes, artist decorated spider’s web nylon sleeve). 6. Schengen’s Kit. Rules and advices for survival of refugee at sea (2015, 300 copies (no.2), autograph note). 7. Human microchip implant & biohacking (2017, 500 copies, with autograph signed note). Christine Kermaire (b. 1953) is a Belgian artist who specializes in Artists Books. She uses various types of materials in her artistic constructions, but is especially known for working with plastics and applied synthetic materials.Rebecca Nicholls (Erica Carr University of Art and Design, 2018): “Christine Kermaire’s artsist’s books are produced using a home colour printer, a laminator, hand riveted or glued. The books use unusual materials such as painted fabric (…) or Tea (Expurgated). One is centered around a contained breath of contaminated air (Euthanasia Kit Form). A search for Kermaire on the internet provides no results for an artists' website, or presence in a gallery context. Yet her work has made it's way by post into hundreds of libraries and special collections. Printing in editions of 300 or so, Kermaire takes full responsibility for the distribution of her work. The contained nature of the gestures proposed by her books almost suggests they are intended to remain between two people - the artist and the recipient. How many people can experience a book that is a cup of tea or a passage that involves a specific breath of air? These books, as a sequence of objects rather than pages, are not easily read: A plan for the World War II cemetery at Ardennes is accompanied by a hand-painted textile, a note suggests collecting subjects DNA on cigarette papers and cataloging them in sequence. Yet traces of themes can be found in these works: the meeting of a scientific or historical fact with a gesture to the personal, an almost naively experimental approach to form, and elements that can be used or used up. There is something profoundly stubborn in these works. Resistant to conventions of aesthetic, the form of the book, and modes of collection and acquisition, Christine Kermaire delivers strange, simple, notes on her vision of humanity. It is our impression - judging the scarcity of the works by Kermaire and the low edition numbers of the works we do encounter, that only a small number of some of the proposed editions were actually assembled.