Candidature

Nicolas Frespech

www.frespech.com

nicolas@frespech.com

Candidature

Nicolas Frespech

Your main qualities and your main faults ? 

The questions you are often asked at job interviews. As part of my application, I wanted to present a creation in book form including a list of qualities and defects that define me. So I contacted by email: friends, my mother, former students, colleagues, strangers and even my primary school teacher, asking them to participate in this work.
Rule : a contact quality and a fault... In less than 24 hours I received a huge response, and some told me it was not easy to do, friends spoke above all of my qualities, my co-workers my faults, and you ?

All this contributes to the achievement of a particular portrait...

In the paper book version the quality is on the left hand page, the fault on the right hand page.

Nicolas Frespech’s experiment is a brave one; how many of us would ask our friends, our families or our peers to define us by both our qualities and our faults? To know in one word, the thing that is good and the thing that is bad about our own personalities? This is what he has asked of those who know him well, and from it, created an overview of his potential candidature. Is he suitable? That is for you to decide, but think also of the answers we would receive if we were to ask the same questions of ourselves?

Sarah Bodman, Research Fellow for Artists'  Books

Centre for Fine Print Research

University of the West of England, Bristol

Thanks to : 

Sarah Bodman ( http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk ) 

Cherise Fong ( http://www.espionne.net )

Antoine Lefebvre ( http://www.labibliothequefantastique.net )

My friends, familly...

Talktative

Loyal

Arrogant

Smart

Spiteful

Sharp

Impatient

Creative

Directing

Friendly

Snobby

Lively

Uncompromising

Attentive

Derisive

Thoughtful

Cynical

Inventive

Touchy

Gluttonous

Spender

Patient

Victim

Authentic

Manipulative

Sweet

Messy

Innovative

Strategist

Refined

Anxious

Optimistic

Optimistic

Rushed

Constant

Cynical

Brave

Solitary

Benevolent

Obtuse

Generous

Questioning

Instructive

Dominating

Insightful

Hot-tempered

Autonomous

Insomniac

Strong

Taciturn

Imaginative

Immodest

Pertinent

Perfectionist

Expansive

Egocentric

Cordial

Secretive

Available

Apathetic

Curious

Whiny

Serious

Shy

Exigent

Worried

Sensitive

Perfectionist

Responsive

Theatrical

Meticulous

Submissive

Expressive

Asthmatic

Disconcerting

Rancorous

Extroverted

Tempestuous

Elegant

Nervous

Poetic

Selfish

Affable

Ambiguous

Fair

Sad

Poetic

Idiotic

Open-minded

Introverted

In a bad way

Disconcerting

Altruistic

Exhibitionist

Reactiv

Unsatisfied

Flexible

Distracted

Attentive

Impatient

Remarkable

Candidature (2009)

English version (epub november 1011. V 1.0 )

Nicolas Frespech

http://www.frespech.com

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