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Body-Text: Ex-voto in Supper
Mixed media 2007 installation

Body-Text is a convocation and an evocation of a conversation with a sonic background of whispered voices. The voices wind around the body and the text, around flesh become verb and verb become flesh. On three tables, there lie mouldings of hands and feet in various situations, chrysalides of calves and forearms, as if the limbs of this banquet had left tangible imprints of their passing. This is a theatre of traces, a physical place which makes way for sensorial impressions.
This banquet brings to mind the Last Supper. The body made sacred becomes Verb through the sharing of flesh and blood, of bread and wine. The hands have attitudes, they still speak. The bodies have withdrawn, they have left traces, ex-votos as an art of memory. A conversation has taken place, words arrive, all at once. One must imagine what is missing by looking at what remains. One has to imagine what lies between, between the words and the fragments of the body, to reinvent the absent bodies. The text fragments and invites the spectator to be the ephemeral witness to this new Supper, this conversation.
“I give a fragment and I draw in the spectator, through rhythm, I draw him into pursuing the movement of the fraction he sees, so that he has the sensation of the whole.” Matisse

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