“We chose to publish an UPO (Unidentified Paper Object) on Marion Bataille’s games in the wake of her double exhibition “Writing one’s name” in Le Havre in May-July 2018, because we believe she offers alternative tools to complete the learning of reading and writing. Marion gives a second chance to every kid. What is so beautiful and moving in the black-white-red letters they create is their effort to keep the letter recognizable, the difficulty of the gesture, the ardour that has been put in it, it’s the daring and the inventiveness, it’s the immense beauty of clumsiness, it’s the clumsiness of dignity.

While observing the workshops, we had the feeling something important was going on. So we invited two researchers to analyse what Marion had invented: former school teacher Marie-Thérèse Zerbato Poudou and Sébastien Morlighem, who teaches the history of typography. We also asked philosopher Aude Lambert and curator Lucile Haguet what it means to “write one’s name” – no ordinary issue indeed!” - Publisher

An AOZ kit is included in UPO 3 (excluding cisors and glue) to write one’s name because nothing replaces the own experiment.