The Count of Monte Cristo ARTIST BOOK

Intervention into Dumas' book

The project is an intervention into Alexandre Dumas' book The Count of Monte Cristo. Some pages of the novel of the marriage between the main heroine Mercédès and her cousin Fernand have been replaced and illustrated with the story of a marriage very publicized at the time between Daimler AG (the maker of Mercedes cars) and Chrysler corporations. The illustration consists in inserting into the novel photographs of Mercedes cars shot in Eastern Europe. The project was made during my artist in residence stay at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, where the headquarters, and one factories of the Daimler AG corporation was located.