Le vide, et le noir, et le nu (Emptiness, night and the nude)

""The objective here is to attempt to discern the possible forms
that shadows can assume. Indeed, it would be wrong to make too
hasty an association between shadow and night or shadow and the
world of darkness. Shadow has a number of faces and masks and
just as it is not one manifestation of night, nor is it merely
the negation of light. A certain sort of shadow may be seen in
broad daylight, that of insignificance and banality, of
ordinary, everyday objects which possess a secret meaning and
are surrounded by a halo of obscurity which may be pierced by
considering their surrealist aesthetic. Nocturnal shades are
more radical and point to the contrast between shadow and night,
between starless and starfilled night. Our intention has been to
analyse a number of figures representing this void: naked
childhood in Meatyard, sexual crudity in Noir limite,
sado-masochistic rituals in Boiffard and finally, the
photographic and pictorial work of Arnulf Rainer.'' (Shortened
Auhor's Summary).


Citaten:
Chevrier, J.-F.: Intérieurs (1981)
Breton, A.: Nadja (1964)
Breton, A.: L'Amour fou (1937)
Chrétien, J.-L.: L'Antiphonaire de la nuit (1989)
Alexandre, C.: L'Ordre des ténèbres
Krauss, R.: Explosante-fixe (1985)