By: François Houtin

Medium: artist book with 30 contiguous etchings in accordion shaped album
Image Size: 3 1/8 x 3 1/8 inches
Edition: 50
Year: 1976

Vie Folle – Folle Vie – Débile is a rare accordion-fold artist’s book by François Houtin, containing thirty contiguous etchings that unfold into a continuous surreal landscape. Printed in Houtin’s precise, botanical line, the imagery evolves from one panel to the next in a dreamlike procession of mechanical plants, hybrid forms, and fantastic architecture. Each vignette connects seamlessly, creating a single flowing panorama that embodies Houtin’s fascination with imagination, nature, and transformation. Bound in marbled paper covers, this intimate artist book reveals Houtin’s poetic vision in miniature—an extraordinary meditation on the fertile border between order and delirium.