Boudailliez, Sylvie

Art as Resistance to Death - 2006.


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The essay means to illustrate how for Roman Opalka, Eugène Leroy and the puppeteer, the encounter with their mortality orient their artistic creation which acts for them as a protection, performing a displacement of the subject, faced with the trauma of a close death. Does Art perform the role of a symptom to cope with our common fate: death?