Chevalines, Bétonsalon Paris

Cover (horse butcher paper), Binding (meat string)

Extract (image of horse butcher storefront from Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris, 1925)

Extract (map of horse butchers in Paris in 1966 and 2016)

Extract (image of various horse races, Bibliothèque nationale de France)

Extract (map of horse butchers in Paris as of June 2016)

Extract (images of horse butcher storefronts all from Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris)

Extract (image of horse butcher storefront Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris)

Book launch at Didier Dassonville's butcher shop. It will close in September 2016, bringing the number of horse butchers in Paris down to 9.

"Les Chevalines" is an artist book, that was launched in a horse butcher of the 20th arrondissement in Paris.

The artist book is the result of ethnographic and archival research and uses the history of eating horse in France to map past and present urban migration to Paris and ethical issues around food and class. It brings together maps, archival images and text, and was part of a curatorial series by Eva Barois De Caevel and Bétonsalon,

The launch was accompanied by a horse tartare and saucisson tasting as well as rosé.