Benoît Plateus

The words ‘One Inch Off’ refer to the title of the series of fanzines produced by Benoît Platéus between 2004 and 2007. Though merely modest printed sheets, these small objects nevertheless embody a kind of distillation of the artist’s work, bringing together many of his favourite ideas and techniques. Coming from the world of comic books, Platéus quickly broadened his horizons to explore the infinite possibilities of image transformation. Page Zéro presents a reproduction of a stencil the artist used to print his fanzine. He ultimately considered the object itself more interesting than the result it was meant to produce. Platéus compares the approach to a sort of ‘reverse graffiti or negative’. The artist frequently recycles objects, newspapers, magazines, books and posters, subjecting them to various experiments and manipulations. Furthermore, questions of scale regularly feature in his practice. Here, the stencil has been enlarged, whilst the title of the fanzine refers to an American paper size that is approximately ‘one inch smaller’ (‘One Inch Off’) than the European format.

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