hello-loser is a family business featuring artists Charlotte Bonjour, Romain Löser and Arthur. This moniker is a pun derived from their surnames. But it’s also a finger raised at the winner’s ideology that divides everything through rivalry. hello-loser develops interdependence and embraces individuality, while cultivating empathy and porous borders. To dilute authorship, they run their studio collectively and grow work together under the names Charlotte Bonjour, Romain Löser or hello-loser, depending on the context.

Sometimes, they make comments in the form of T-shirts.

Since 2021, they have been practicing osmosis at GUTS – an art space to which they invite a few exchange-minded artists each year to develop an exhibition.

Portrait hello loser Fotokredit hello loser s

The following poem – Aris names them Envoyelle – was written by Aristilde Kirby in 2020, and depicts the hello-loser family, as well as some works present on this homepage :

Blackhole Vacation / Family Album 

(After Hello-Loser)
[Envoyelle Custom uni. ‘Vajra Macrogram’]
{μϭεϭεμϭμεεμϭεμϭμεϭε}

 

μ Rin 5 | » Her blanched peach tie-dyes  » Cyan lemur-mice  » Ship a market crash: ︾
ϭ Nou 7 | ︾ pure gelid aquarelle &  »  with spark hearts of rambutan  »  He inkjetties the pallet, ︾
ε The 6 | ︾ bleeds ashen poppy glows.  »  color in life’s crypsis.  »  distorting peeks & troughs. ︾

ϭ Nou 7 | » Our coy submersible boy  » She falls asleep, book-tented  » Sardines dead in lunulas ︾
ε The 5 | ︾ steals one warm sand-franc  » upon her face, dreams  »  stain dibond skewers ︾
μ Rin 7 | ︾ from the moon’s mist-thick sleeve.  »  in Black & White adventures.  »  with Mushroom, Eggplant, & Squash. ︾

ϭ Nou 6 | »   Silly string easter grass  » Adorned in tart leaf stones,  » Coined pontillist dollars, ︾
μ Rin 7 | ︾ nests chine-colled cute microbes.  »  marzipan clay unicorn  »  holepunched capital punishment*⁸ ︾
ε The 5 | ︾ Soothes the gray matter.  »  standing proud, plush flame tail.  »  on heartbroke iPhone. ︾

ε Rin 6 | » Before dinner, X sees  » They pull full fish skeletons,  » Charlotte says his food is  ︾
μ The 8 | ︾ the petaloid peel off as an  »  eunonymous dead pair who are  »  getting cool as a polar bear. ︾
ϭ Nou 6 | ︾ asterisk person form.  »  washed in a swan boat crash.  »  Does his friend want to share? ︾

ε The 5 | » X says yes, his friend  » Between dog & wolf,  » He feels so downcast  ︾
μ Rin 7 | ︾ comes from vague lands of pigment  » the cub strengthened his new fangs  »  & wants to return home, ︾
ϭ Nou 6 | ︾ laced dry-erase line snakes  »  eating sausage-flowers.  »  so he called to X. ︾

μ The 17 | » “So he asked me to ask you: heads or tails?” Romain said “Heads.” Charlotte nods. ︾
ε Rin 17 | » X flipped the sand-franc & it landed on his palm as a small wormhole, ︾
ϭ Nou !* | » It sucked at the world like water circles a drain, the starguy jumps in.*¹⁷ ︾
ε The !* | » ⑲ X covered the void with his free hand, then removed it. The coin vanished.*¹⁷

Blackhole Vacation / Family Album

(After the Hello-Loser Collective)
[Envoyelle Custom uni. ‘Vajra Macrogram’]
{μϭεϭεμϭμεεμϭεμϭμεϭε}

μ Rin 5 | » Her blanched peach tie-dyes  »
ϭ Nou 7 | » Cyan lemur-mice  »
ε The 6 | » Ship a market crash:

» pure gelid aquarelle &  »

» with spark hearts of rambutan  » 

» He inkjetties the pallet,

» bleeds ashen poppy glows. »

» color in life’s crypsis. » 

» distorting peeks & troughs.

ϭ Nou 7 | » Our coy submersible boy »
ε The 5 | » She falls asleep, book-tented  »
μ Rin 7 | » Sardines dead in lunulas

» steals one warm sand-franc   »

» upon her face, dreams  » 

» stain dibond skewers

» from the moon’s mist-thick sleeve. »

» in Black & White adventures. » 

» with Mushroom, Eggplant, & Squash.

ϭ Nou 6 | » Silly string easter grass  »
μ Rin 7| » Adorned in tart leaf stones, »
ε The 5 | » Coined pontillist dollars,

» nests chine-colled cute microbes. »

» marzipan clay unicorn  » 

» holepunched capital punishment*⁸

» Soothes the gray matter. »

» standing proud, plush flame tail. » 

» on heartbroke iPhone.

ε Rin 6 | » Before dinner, X sees  »
μ The 8| » They pull full fish skeletons, »
ϭ Nou 6 | » Charlotte says his food is

» the petaloid peel off as an  »

» eunonymous dead pair who are  » 

» getting cool as a polar bear.

» asterisk person form. »

» washed in a swan boat crash. » 

» Does his friend want to share?

ε The 5 | » X says yes, his friend  »
μ Ring 7| » Between dog & wolf, »
ϭ Nou 6 | » He feels so downcast

» comes from vague lands of pigment  »

» the cub strengthened his new fangs  » 

» & wants to return home,

» laced dry-erase line snakes  »

» eating sausage-flowers. » 

» so he called to X.

μ The 17 | » “So he asked me to ask you: heads or tails?”

Romain said “Heads.” Charlotte nods.

ε Ring 17 | » X flipped the sand-franc & it landed on his palm

as a small wormhole,

ϭ Nou !* | » It sucked at the world like water circles a drain,

the starguy jumps in.*¹⁷

ε The !* | » ⑲ X covered the void with his free hand, then removed it.

The coin vanished.*¹⁷

 

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< Just saying, you can read each haikuesque unit as a Single from Number to Number vertically, ︾
| or as a Mix totally horizontally, crash blossom style, as one would a poem traditionally. ︾
| A Tracklist is next, which reveals the title of each unit. This poem is ekphrastical of many works featured on this very site, ︾
\ written by proud marraine & poet Aristilde Kirby.  /

 

Side A – Blackhole Vacation

  1. Chromagenics
  2. Z. marsipulania
  3. Shifting & Handling
  4. X Finds Sunken Treasure (At The Intersection of Mångata in Swedish & Manga in Spanish)
  5. Charlotte Rereads Tekkonkinkreet In A Hammock
  6. Romain Manicurates Nailed Finger Foods
  7. Easter in Réunionese
  8. Hierbaluisa
  9. A Billion Dolors
  10. Devil’s Doubloon

 

Side B = Family Album

  1. Parents Draw The Lovers From The Mouth / The Marred Au Pair of Marian & Pauline
  2. Motherhood
  3. Vague Lands I: Make Your Mark
  4. Vague Lands II: Graze & Grow [After Chirin no Suzu]
  5. Vague Lands III: Don’t Forget Home
  6. Heads Or Tails
  7. Tails Never Fails
  8. Retour au pays natal [After Aime Cesaire]
  9. The Young Magician

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