These are troubling times. With reference to the immense medieval Apocalypse Tapestry and Jean Lurçat’s Song of the World, both housed in Angers where our Spring Convention will take place in April 2026, the MFPP is launching a call for creative origami submissions on the theme of the Apocalypse.
This theme may seem dark and despairing, but remember that it can also be an outlet, a call to hope and even joy. It is also the Apocalypse, without a capital A, which can be universal or personal, an end or a beginning — the choice is yours !
« I dealt with only one subject : the world, which I find beautiful despite its foolishness, its foolish wars, its foolish famines […] »
(Jean Lurçat on his Song of the World, excerpt from a radio interview with Marie Albe in December 1965 on Marseille Provence.)« Write then what you have seen, what is, what will happen next. »
(Revelation 1:9)« The end of the world is looming, but we’re having a party. »
(Didier Super, excerpt from « We’re All Going to Die »)
Exhibition
Whether you’re attending our Spring Convention or unable to travel, you can either :
- Send us your origami by mail to be displayed at the event. Unless we arrange for its return beforehand, the association will be happy to include it in our temporary collections for a future exhibition.
- Send us beautiful photos (digital format, best possible resolution) to present your work on-site and for publication in our magazine, Le Pli (contact@mfpp-origami.fr).
Your submission can be a scene, a character, an animal, a monster from the Book of Revelation, or a free interpretation of the general theme. We hope to see figurative, abstract, or decorative submissions. The choice of colors and tapestry-inspired patterns can be good starting points for you to express yourself through modular or tessellation techniques.
Your contribution should ideally be accompanied by a short statement of intent to explain your choices ! In the case of interpreting folds that you did not create yourself, please provide a list of the models used.
Call for Diagrams
If you would like to create an exclusive design on this theme or promote your latest unpublished creations, you can create a diagram (or a folding template) and send it to us (contact@mfpp-origami.fr) before March 15th for consideration for publication in our event booklet.
Diagrams should preferably be in black and white, drawn digitally or by hand. We try to avoid descriptive text in the steps as much as possible. For paper creations, a high-quality scan (minimum 300 DPI) is required. For digital diagrams, they must be in .pdf, .svg, or Affinity format.
If your diagram is published, you will receive a copy of the booklet by mail.
We reserve the right to translate and adapt your diagrams for our publication format.
For any questions, please contact the association by email : contact@mfpp-origami.fr
To learn more
- The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages
- Press kit (PDF) for the exhibition « Apocalypse Yesterday and Tomorrow, » Paris, BNF, 2025
- Wikipedia article on the Apocalypse Tapestry
- Tapestry Photographs of the Apocalypse Tapestry
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