maigres mirages
drawings

maigres mirages — Personal work composed of twelve black drawings created like a dark tale. It is inspired by Samuel Beckett’s poems written between 1976 and 1978 called mirlitonnades and edited by Editions de Minuit. I am a fan for a long time of Samuel Beckett’s univers. His way of looking at silence, his helpless bodies, his torn shapes, is seething inner world salute beauty in its poverty. An approach not working on meaning but only on aesthetics.

Representing the unrepresentable is the common thread of this story. Disappearance of all action, a place for nothingness, human forms mixed with spectral forms, ashes, the darkness of the spirit in which the body disappears. Conceived as a Greek tragedy and a burlesque comedy at the same time, the different scenes appearing on the drawings evoke interiority and the passage of time, a mixture of laughter and tears in the twilight. A time to move away from oneself, to become a shadow, a stone, to close your eyes and let the images return. /