This proposition from la Petite Fabrique allows me to share with the public a sketch of my vision of the world.
From the start, I wanted no certainties. I went looking for questions.
Questions that we encounter, questions that come to us from the critics, from the public, about the work.
In this quest, we have put aside the better-known fables who, even today in Brazil, are part of our collective imagination, that of our children, adolescents, adults. We have moved closer to the artist Jean de La Fontaine, to his concerns, his thoughts, his choices. We have chosen the fable “Contre ceux qui ont le goût difficile” (Against those with difficult tastes). We believe that for all of us, and not only today’s youth, in Brazil or in France, it is extremely important to consider our acts.
The immensity of the questions brought up by Jean de La Fontaine has allowed me to find common ground between the France and its Louis, described and criticized by La Fontaine’s sharp pen, and the vision we have, and that others have of us, in the Brazil of today.
Who are the strong and who are the weak in these two worlds ?
Might losing or winning be no more than the perspective from which we look ?
Could we imagine, as in the “The Oak and the Reed”, that the forces at work take unexpected directions, and that different possibilities might present themselves ?
Leave the world open, without fixed, predetermined, unalterable ideas…
To be a cicada or an ant, an oak or a reed, a fox or a stork, a king or a vassal, landowner or land to be owned, artist or critic, of art or of the world itself…
Imagine, invent, dream…
And is it not in our dreams that new worlds can begin to be built ?