

Curtain
Curtain the ob/scene
or what can happen
beyond the scene
besides the eye
before language
beneath the skin
below the image
on the surface
People do not see you. They invent you and accuse you.
Hélène Cixous
Curtain unfolded
allowing passages or separations
filtering light, voices
clothing bodies and furniture
ornamenting a house, a skin
absorbing smells, sounds
reflecting shadows
flowing with the wind
breathing
Curtain the real
What we call “reality” is actually already a re-presentation
framed by fiction, narration, history, propaganda, lie, pretention of truth, memory, landscape, documentary.
What we call “reality” is actually already a re-presentation
Curtain has the ability to produce an effect of « the real »
that consists of turning mimesis (imitation of reality) against itself
by radical dissimilarity or literal operation.
What we name “the real” is not synonym of reality,
it is rarely a (human) construction or re-presentation
through language and image.
According to the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, “The real, or what is perceived as such, is absolutely resisting to symbolization (symbolic)” . Thus, the real always escapes from/to language and reality, a kind of unspeakable, traumatic experience, beyond any truth.
All the question is thus to observe how a figure can be created to open up the image to something that is out of any representation.
Curtain has the ability to produce an effect of « the real »
To give a new meaning to the words of the other
And then these words made mine
Shaped with vigorous cuts
Reveal a history of the unsaid,
the awkwardly said, the badly said
Diverse but so alike
Small bits of stories that cannot make history
Into a difference claiming for an undulating, moving,
dancing multiplicity Into a language transcribing, translating
Chantal Spitz, Souls in Exile.
To give a new meaning to the words of the other