A missing, hollow image lurks behind memory. An original fabric, a breeding ground for preceding, primeval sensations, tirelessly reappearing.
Representations about the birth of the world and mankind is built on intertwining myths, collective symbols, legends and stories of all kinds, creating a background of representations upon which our personal stories are grafted, reappearing over and over in our dreams, in our literature.
Beneath the diversity of forms comes the obstinate presence of elements such as water, opposing forces, original chaos or nothingness.
For example, in the philosophy of Empedocles - one of the first Greek thinkers and one of the pre- Socratic philosophers, the originators of Western thought - water, earth, fire, and air are brought into play by the tension of the forces of attraction and separation. Our bodies follow this same magnetic movement of attraction and repulsion.
This series thus turns towards original night, in search of what moves upstream, of language and memory. It navigates along traces left by these first poetic and philosophical thoughts on both the origin of the world and mankind.
In this space, bodies arise. It's also a story of desire. In the circulation of primordial elements is woven a quest for the recognition of an increasingly remote anteriority.
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