
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…