Palefroi Research

Palefroi is Damien Tran and Marion Jdanoff.

They met in Berlin in 2011 and discovered that they share the same drive and energy toward screen printing. Multiplying projects together, they decide to formalize their partnership in 2013 by creating Palefroi, a framework which embraces all of their practices, the self-publishing of books and prints in particular.

Palefroi is also the name they use to sign all of their pieces as a duo. Tran and Jdanoff constantly go back and forth between their individual and their collective work. Their language as a duo is at the crossroads of their respective worlds. One is formal and abstract, the other narrative and figurative. Over the years, the boundaries between their personal and collective work have become more and more porous.

They produce limited edition art prints, posters, artist books and zines. 
Their work is characterized by a free-form aesthetic in which rules are taken apart, allowing creativity and playfulness to come to the forefront of their compositions.

Graphic greatness and beautiful books by Berlin-based Palefroi

Catherine Gaffney

Hand-made books are slightly difficult to showcase online, but do your absolute best to browse through Palefroi’s beautiful projects, screenprinted and produced in limited editions by the Berlin-based art collective. Made up of artists Damien Tran, Marion Jdanoff, and Susann Pönnisch, Palefroi’s work is clever, bold, and consistently engaging – the illustrations feature stark geometric shapes alongside looser, free-flowing elements, and the palette always appears extremely considered. There is also an excellent use of negative space and a keen awareness of “the page” as a scene within a wider progression. Subject matter ranges from mountain peaks and battles to ghostly, mythological creatures, often evoking the sinister and the surreal. Wonderfully done.