Cabinet de Curiosité
2018
When one evokes the cabinet of curiosity, this last word reminds me of the journeys of the great discoveries of the Renaissance. These rare curiosities were witnesses of the distant treasures discovered.I also give it a power relationship, the collections composed a heritage of strangeness that placed its owner in the fantasized status of Voltaire's Arrias "I saw everything, I read everything, ...". The cabinet of curiosity in these qualities of small private museum seems to have been set up more in the report of wonder that it produces on the others (handpicked) than for a place of absurd meditation where the imagination navigates.
However, these collections remain static, caulked in showcases, lifeless.We find animals, stuffed, corals, dead, fetuses, floating in formaldehyde, skulls, by default inanimate, and many other minerals or plants frozen.
So I wonder why not observe nature in motion. A nature that resembles us and that we take little time to look at. I am talking about the human body.Why not observe the latent curiosities between two human bodies? I am not talking here about creating a lion's cage where deformed bodies would be stored. Rather, I would like to propose an empirical observation that will not point out defects, but will offer a look between two beings of the same species. There is no question of "better" or "worse". I would just like to talk about the relationship to the other. A piece made for oneself and for the other where anatomical and physiological richness would mix.
