Sound composition : Dante Pannetier

Text by Florian Besset

Binôme #2
Tribute to a passed person, expression of pain itself but also of faith in life, this artwork was inspired to Caroline Tapernoux by an especially hard grief. The light is lowered. But like a lowered flag can be raised again to deploy its colours with magnificence in front of the eyes of everyone, from the confiscated light can re-birth the beauty of the light, source of life: the punctuation of immerged red cellular elements in the circle of confiscated light evokes the red cells promising a possible re-birth, germs of the return to beauty, of a return to life. Caroline Tapernoux works « in situ » which means that she chose the ceremonial room of the Castle of Barjac to offer to this powerful artwork the framework of dignity and deference it deserves.

Victor Hugo wrote :
« Death and beauty are two deep things
Which contain as much shadow and azure that they seem
Two sisters equally terrible and fruitful
Keeping the same enigma and the same secret . »*
* Victor Hugo, Complete Poems (Poèsies completes), Tome III, éd. Seuil 1972