The space around you seems familiar, you even feel its smallest corners in the dark, you anticipate each step, you grope your way. From the parquet to the pipes, the slightest noises and creaks can be detected. Time slows down, take three steps to go from the living room to the bedroom. Another set of steps out of the two-piece.
In this familiar "home", we discover, one night by chance, by tearing off a piece of wallpaper, the handle of a very small concealed door, it seems to have always been there... Crossing its threshold, we enter the darkness into another room, an immense space whose extent and volume are difficult to discern.
We are then torn, between the feeling of having missed out on something during all these years, of having been forced to evolve in a restricted space, and by an apprehension in the face of this unknown territory which is offered to us. and that we will now have to discover and appropriate.
The interstice represents this passage, a movement in the immobile. It is the space between the planes, it connects the territory with the image. It allows you to move forward.
When the door communicating with the wing was closed, you didn't realize that the house was very big, it was more like being in one of its modern apartments where you can barely move. Irène and I always lived in that part of the house, we hardly ever went through the oak door except to go clean; incredible the amount of dust that can settle on the furniture. Buenos-Aires may be a clean city but then it is thanks to its inhabitants. There is too much dust suspended in the air, at the slightest breath you can see it settling on the marble of the consoles and between the arabesques of the crocheted doilies; it is no small matter to remove it well with a feather duster, it flies away, remains in the air for a moment then falls obstinately on the furniture and the pianos.
Casa Tomada - Julio Cortázar
Exposition du 8 AU 20 AVRIL 2014,
Rezdechaussée
66, rue Notre Dame - Bordeaux
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