FAZ

What divides a woman?

Here they are, drawing their matter from their very plinth, inflecting the four elements and asking us a persistent question: what divides a woman? And in front of them, when the angle of our gaze opens new perspectives, we attempt an answer. She is divided by her body, undoubtedly, by its use, by its pleasure. By the promise of its fertility. Also, more painfully, by the gaze of men who burst her open, who break her up in flashes of desire, catalogue of objects which they take away from her.
What divides a woman? The water from which she streams, the earth of which she is mother, the breath she generates, the fire she conceals. Walk around FAZ’ statues and you shall hear this truth, impossible to grasp with words: it runs from sculpture to sculpture, nestled in the fold of Metamorphosis’ sex, in Sirane’s gorgeous buttocks, in the dazzled bursting of the limbs in the Kiss.

Philippe Grimbert