« Ce n’est rien de mourir ; c’est affreux de ne pas vivre"
« It is nothing to die; It's terrible not to live."
Victor Hugo “Les Miserables” 1862
These drawings artistically testify to my fascination with sculptures depicting humans, petrified movement, memorial testimony, ambiguity of vision caught between the immobility of the stone and the expressiveness of the posture, a sort of in-between representation of life and death.
I realized the drawing « Gisant positif » using “the Veiled Christ” (Cristo velato) as a model, a marble sculpture by Giuseppe Sanmartino kept at the Sansevero Chapel in Naples, Italy, 50 × 80 × 180 cm, 1753
I added in the background the quote from Victor Hugo above transcribed in computer language: « Ce n’est rien de mourir ; c’est affreux de ne pas vivre ».
It was a question of creating an enigmatic tension between a sculpture which bears the emblematic memory of a living person in the position of a dead person, and a quotation from computer language, whose graphics can recall the inscriptions on certain funerary steles.
