Contre-jour

The central character of Contre-jour is the eye. As a physiological perception of shape, space, colour, light, dark. As the source and reflection of what sight doesn’t see. As a fragment of a body condemned to remain in the shade. As a substitute for a tactile relationship with the world. As a glance, a sexual impulse, the fixing of desire. Turning the eye on itself means fragmenting the world, dislocating its forms, extinguishing consciousness. As Victor foresaw, “the eye was in the tomb”. (Yann Lardeau)