S'excrit!

« Il y a une charge inédite de réel: choses, matières, espaces, supports, peaux, grains et fibres. L’art se déplace donc: il cesse de chercher de nouvelles formes, mais c’est lui-même qu’il transforme et qu’il transporte insensiblement hors de son site. Son horizon n’est plus celui d’un transfiguration, mais celui d’une pratique patiente en deçà des figures, à même les surfaces, les corps, les pâtes, les masses, les battues ou les timbres, là où les objets deviennent étranges, où le monde s’évide ou se décompose, se recompose de part en part. […] Non plus d’abord composer des formes, mais toucher des fonds, les rayer, les gratter, les pincer, les percer, aller ainsi au plus loin de l’accomplissement, dans les commencements, les états naissants, près des énergies non liées, des tensions en déclenchement, dans les écarts et les secousses des origines. » Jean-Luc Nancy, La pensée dérobée.

The project is a series of nine photographs. Each one is named by the date of the shot. The works lasted for about three months. I have chosen a discontinued basalt's quarry near my home. The main shot is "Mineral matter XV" from the series "What's the matter?". It was a grueling works cause there was many miles between my car and my work place. And each time I was carried big plastic buckets with many kind of liquid clays. Once I was in front of my rock wall, I was doing a painter's work with different local clay. Then I waited for the good light and began to shot (one hour of intensive shooting). This project works about the ageing process, through a creative dialogue between me, the rock and the weather. I paint on the basalt with clay, the basalt take it and answer by changing the appearance of clay, then during one week it's raining - I come back again with clay. Freeze, wind, sun, clay, basalt and me was established a creative dialogue: who is the creator of what? "Excriture" is a concept by French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, trying to inseminate the work of Difference into the writing as a general concept.