“ NOTHING IS MORE ETERNAL THAN A WRITTEN AND BOUND PAD OF PAPER.”

“ ONE OF THE ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS OF PHYLOSOPHY REMAINS INSCRIBED IN ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THE SHADE. THE INTELECTUAL MEDIUMS ARE MADE OF INK TO GIVE A LEGACY TO OUR SOULS. IT’S A VERY SIMPLE TECHNOLOGY, THE BOOK. WITHOUT SHAPE MADE OF DARKNESS, REMAINS THE ABSENCE, THE ONTOLOGICAL ENIGMA TO WHICH THE OBSERVER TRIES TO ANSWER BY IDENTIFYING WHAT STILL REMAINS. IMPOSSIBLE TO BE SEEN. THEREFORE, BY ESSENCE PHYLOSOPHICAL ANSWERS ARE MADE OF SHADOW, IT REMAINS INTO INTERSTICES, INTO THE DEEP. “

- Cercle SMHRCH , 2007 October 25th , Paris.

Today SMHRCH is a publisher intended to produce all the projects of the SMHRCH circle. This implies a lecture of the world, a radical political stand. It's just an onther step of a journey that began 20 years ago.

Formed in 2002 in rue Assas, Paris, SMHRCH is an art group in the shadow of the ghosts of the early XXth century in the Luxembourg Gardens during informal meetings that would form the basis of a circle, which was in its very moment the lost expression of a childhood determined to remain unspoiled, free and turned towards the remnant of transcendent values. It had to live with the memory, live with the violence of what it imposed on every new born, the relay of the worst that we have to learn to wipe out, as if we had to wash the sky itself.

In this perspective, how to organize, how to find a structure to rise? These attempts have been unsuccessful with the best and renowned art institutions and industrial structures, which remain incapable of not being this relays of the worst that has permanently settled in human societies. So much everything was flawed, it had to start all over again, rewrite the world, rewrite history, art and even religions, up to the most simple expressions of civilization .

Centered around the questions of inheritance, the search for happiness, the need for shared joy, the problem of the inertia of the worst in human societies opposed to the ideal mysantropical experiences of artists, writers, authors, SMHRCH has for 20 years sought the keys that would allow it to give itself a foundation to implement this evidence: This ideal world exists, it is not human, but it is the fact of a isolated and rare souls. Is such a union of those who remains possible? What is this circle that is taking shape? This is the foundation of the Symehyarchy.
From Cioran to Simone Veil, from Charles Péguy to Hannah Arendt, from Faulkner to Gunter Anders, films and ballet, a musical piece, an unexpected encounter, between sacred aspiration, lunacy, off-screen and activism a random correspondence is formed from which the contours of a kaleidoscope work begin to emerge, between novels and paintings, between the need of giving oneself a body, to dress and animate itself, filled with a trained conscience that could inhabit this Future Eden which remains to be built.

After moving from Paris to London, Milan, Shenzhen, and other short-lived destinations in Europe and Asia, SMHRCH is now based in Seoul, and centered around a grown international circle. It spreads around several axes: A Publishing Studio, a Design Studio and an Art Laboratory whose vocation is the production of films and plastic works. This approach is part of the desire to draw a new line, something that is expected, but which did not take place. It is up to us to manifest it.
We also offer our services for the publication of paper books, multimedia, architecture, design, curation and consulting services .

S M H R C H M A S T H E A D
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KIM NARI CHIEF EXECUTOR OFFICIER
HEA8 PUBLISHER / CREATIVE DIRECTOR / EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
HEA7 PHOTOGRAPHER
KWUN JUNG WON OFFICE ASSISTANT
SAALMINK MARLO EDITOR & FASHION CURATOR
JOAN ARANRHOD EDITOR & LITERATURE CURATOR
THOMAS ANDERS JONES EDITOR & ART CURATOR
CLEMENS FINKELSTEIN EDITOR & ARCHITECTURE CURATOR - GERMANY & USA CORRESPONDANT
SHANA CHANDRA EDITOR ASSISTANT
LAURE CHAVINIER PUBLISHING ASSISTANT
REMI FELIPE PARIS CASTING DIRECTOR
MOTE SINABEL AOKI CURATOR & JAPAN CORRESPONDANT
WILLIAM J. BORROUGH ART EDITOR

KIM NARI: between Paris and Seoul, where she was able to travel and become familiar with Art from an early age during numerous journeys accross Europe and Asia, and after having studying classical literature and art, having concluded by the analysys of Wong Kar Wai’s films, she worked for more than ten years in prestigious fashion houses, such as GIVENCHY, ALEXANDER MC QUEEN, KRIZIA, before devoting herself to her own studio and founding in 2021 SMHRCH, of which she chairs the direction.

HEA8: first immersed in imaginary worlds mixed with a pronounced curiosity for art, history, economics and sciences, after studiing in Philosophy, and furtive course of art in Paris, having then chosen a retreat for the study and deepening of his researches. After having lived between Europe and Asia, working in fashion and art, Hea8 settled in Seoul in 2017, where several exhibitions and experimental film projects.

KWUN JUNG WON: graduated in aesthetic philosophy at the university La Sorbonne IV. Worked as a journalist and art critic for french publication and korean art magazines. Currently art curator.

MARLO SAALMINK: as an art director, writer and strategist, Marlo works with a carefully curated selection of international designers, institutes and publications. Seasonal pilgrimages to Florence, Paris, Tokyo, Copenhagen and London, keep him informed on the global (market) tendencies found within design. Today, the atelier works with hubs and creatives such as POLIMODA, ODDA MAGAZINE, MISMO, STEPHAN SCHNEIDER, THE LAST CONSPIRACY, FUCKING YOUNG! MAGAZINE, THE WHITE BRIEFS, DASH. http://www.marlosaalmink.com/

JOAN ARANRHOD: writer of science fiction novels, Heroic Fantasy, but also scriptwriter for the cinema, active since 1997. After having written several short stories (notably "A la Verticale du Vide", "Les Sereina Sore"), his first novel "Dread Mother Laid" exposes the degradation of circumstances of modern civilization around a black fantastic allegory of the post-life City. Then follow "Goodbye Strangers", "Terminal Spirit Disease" (incomplete work still being published) which was adapted into a graphic novel in 2005. He is now writing a dark fantasy novel, soon published by SMHRCH.

CLEMENS FINKELSTEIN: is a critic, curator, researcher, and writer. He is a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University, where his research engages the natural and built environments at the junction of Art and Architectural History with the History of Science and Technology. He is a Fulbright Scholar (Harvard University, 2015-2017), Planetary Scholar at the Panel on Planetary Thinking of the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany (2022), Junior Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies »Imaginaria of Force« at the University of Hamburg, Germany (2022-2023), and Berlin Program Fellow for Advanced German and European Studies at the Free University of Berlin, Germany (2023-2024).
https://www.clemensfinkelstein.com/

MOTE SINABEL AOKI: Photographer and Film Director. Mote was raised in Tokyo and Los Angeles. He studied Architecture and studied Painting and Sculpture in U.S. and in Paris. He discovered photography as his expression since his 1st published book called Nowhere in 1997.and he started take his imaginary visions into photography and video after working as an art director in Paris and Tokyo.His photography works has been in various fashion magazines and advertisements, and also book projects of landscape, portraits, and art.The works has dynamic visions of silence and a subtle beauty which is sensitive and atomospheric.His first short film `Catharsis` (starring with Jena Malone) has been shown in Cannes Film Festival and Beijing Film 2009 and fashion film `Naquid` was shown in Rotterdam film festival in 2011. He is currently based in Paris and Tokyo.
https://www.motesinabel.com/

WILLIAM J. BORROUGH: is an art, literature and film critic at LES CAHIERS BLEU. He resides in Berkeley, Stroud District in Gloucestershire, England, where he devotes himself to writing and history archiving.

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PUBLISHING THE SHADE

The publishing house SMHRCH which will present in October its first periodic publication SYMEHYARCHE ISSUE01. A curated journal of art, sciences, and technologies, devoted to the perspectives of the Now, a stream that synthesizes the essences of our civilization. This journal will be the beginning of an off-road journey, a semantic experience that questions the convergence of mediums, of times, in an attempt to produce living matter for a living being.

The SMHRCH catalog opens with SYMEHYARCHE issue 01, "The Ascent of the Pale Sun Awaits." Resolutely revolving around the question of the sanctuary, it questions the paradox of the need for transumence and the conservation of the immortal temple. Each year appears a new volume, forming a dark semantic journey, a living formulation of eternal limitations transcended by engineering, art, failure and love.
Obviously this art review is an opportunity to revive major and radical works. We work closely with contributors, without compromises.

ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS.

SMHRCH proscribes the use of wood for its books printed in woodfree paper. We work according to the principle of reducing the number of employees as much as possible, in order to reduce the energy footprint of our productions. We are working on the replacement of plastic materials. Our books are printed in reduced series so as not to participate in the overproduction and waste of natural resources.

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“ NOTHING IS MORE ETERNAL THAN A WRITTEN AND BOUND PAD OF PAPER.”

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