On the occasion of Martine Syms' exhibition, this catalog entitled Total retraces the artistic practice of Martine Syms since 2005, immersing readers in a total work of art that looks at the âtheater of the everydayâ, the roles we play in it, and the surveillance mechanisms that control them. The artist's work br idges the gap between the public and the private, the seen and the unseen, the inside and the outside. Between intimate references, historical archives, cultural representations of Blackness, feminist history and invocations of spirituality, Total presents itself as a work in...