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Living with the question
When all questions have been asked, there comes a time when the enigma no longer resolves itself. Then the golden silhouette of the sphinx remains gathered, motionless. Facing the dark circle, it dominates nothing. It waits.
Around the sphinx, the world is dense and structured. The vegetal is reduced to its lines, like a framework that envelops and contains.
Above, the centre of the circle is dark. It does not illuminate. It frames the infinity of possibilities. Black is not an absence, but the place where everything can come into being.
Red floods the space. It is not violence, but intensity. And at the heart of this vibration, the sphinx is not the one who gives the answer. It is the one who learns to live with the question. Between the desire to know and the impossibility of concluding, it simply remains there, in between the worlds.
Living with the question
The sphinx is a strange creature, with a human head and the body of a lion. In legends, the sphinx asks difficult questions and never gives the answers.
This one is golden. It faces a large dark circle and remains motionless, as if it were waiting.
Around it, the world is very organised. Nature is carefully drawn, with straight lines. Everything seems to be in its place. And yet, the circle does not shine. It gives no answer.
Sometimes, in life, there is no ready-made solution. So something else remains: learning to stay there, calm, facing the question, and continuing to live with it.
16 × 16 in - Mixed media on canvas
16 × 16 in - Mixed media on canvas
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The GRATALOUP Museum podcasts
2021 - LE SPHINX
2021 - THE SPHINX
40 × 40 cm
16 × 16 in
Technique mixte sur toile
Mixed media on canvas