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Sep
Les trottoirs de l’histoire de l’art (Misstic)

These images come from the time when I used to live in the rue Marie Benoist, a really small impasse by the Place de la Nation. Oftentimes, I wandered around the neighborhoods with my cameras just looking for something that would provoke my thoughts. I used to live alone. Upon finding something, anything, I would simply take a picture, maybe more, and then I would stop and start writing. It was all about what Ansel Adams used to call visualization, that is, the abstract and subjective representation of what you had just registered by the unstable means of light, and film, and lenses. How wonderful was that experience of shooting and writing, at the time in which digital cameras either didn't exist or were too expensive for me to afford. One of the charms of film is that you have to wait until the film has been developed; in the meantime, the image grows different in you, as a result of 'visualization', having, hence, forgotten about the precise elements of the original, fugitive image from 'reality'.

Son âme à table. JRVOn the other hand, what kind of visualization can grow up while shooting against the wall, even if you have les yeux fertiles? One in which the History of Art is a labyrinth of streets with narrow pavements; in them, Art is asking questions to pedestrians whose better answer is "Sorry, not today".

There is no place for me. JRVFaims de moi. JRVSauf le désir. JRVActes gratuits. JRV

Avec qui? JRVDes yeux fertiles. JRVSport extrême. JRVL’émoi passe, les mois passent. JRV

C'est grâce à Laurie-Anne que j'ai connu le livre de Paul Éluard, Les Yeux Fertiles, que j'ai dévoré par la suite, maintes fois, pendant des années. Le poême qui suit n'appartient pas, en fait, au livre dessusdit (il fait partie de La Vie Immédiate), mais, quoi? ça ne fait rien. Il est là, tout simplement, pour être lu parmi toutes les possibilités de fertitilé oculaire.

NUSCH

Les sentiments apparents
La légèreté d'approche
La chevelure des caresses.

Sans soucis sans soupçons
Tes yeux sont livrés à ce qu'ils voient
Vus par ce qu'ils regardent.

Confiance de cristal
Entre deux miroirs
La nuit tes yeux se perdent
Pour joindre l'eveil au désir. 

There is one response to “Les trottoirs de l’histoire de l’art (Misstic)”

  1. Aurélie

    La présence de Misstic dans les rues parisiennes est vraiment singulière dans le sens où il s’agit presque d’une colonisation artistique de l’espace. Surprendre un dessin, une inscription, le buste de cette femme, c’est en quelque sorte se sentir chez soi, dans un espace que l’on reconnait. C’est être à la fois surpris et entouré.

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