Augenblick
Photograph, 2014

Artothèque du Limousin collection (FACLIM).

In German, moment is translated as “Augenblick” : the time of a gaze.
“Every real gaze is desire”, said Alfred de Musset. Fleeting desire, as in the French expression for orgasm “La petite mort” - “Little death”. In every gaze floats passing time, and death watches out, like an impertinent sublet, an insidious intruder…

→  FRAC-Artothèque Limousin


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