Dominique GobletLe Jardin des candidats

Le Jardin des candidats renews the narrative and visual universe of Plus si entente. This second book is a very large-format 256-page playground where comics and contemporary art, ceramics, sculptures, ready-mades, watercolours and burlesque strips meet… The multiplicity of forms of expression and total freedom of tone create a unique adventure for aesthetes in search of subtle and licentious experiences, a book for the naughtiest coffee tables…

Behind every detail of a hushed garden lies an intimate story, a wonderful tale… or a farce. Authentic replicas of dating websites populate this boundless experiment, whose characters and drawn scenes always flirt with the grotesque and the larger-than-life.

From the candidates’ profiles to their efforts to dig her pool, La Mère sees and hears it all. Males unfit in their briefs comb their hair, revise their declarations or exchange dubious jokes, compare their anatomies and submit to her whims. The point of view shifts from one to the other, in a closed-door setting that exposes bodies, thwarted desires and bizarre personalities.