Emilie Delugeau’s We Must Meet Apart series is titled after one of the great love poems by American Emily Dickinson (1830-1886). Such a choice, radical when one knows the complexities of interpretation that surround this literary work, must be commented on. This poem declines in several stanzas the impossibility of the love as well in the life as in the death. The last stanza offers a resolution in the form of an oxymoron (meet apart) which introduces a suspense between possibility and impossibility: an encounter that would not resolve the separation, nor would it be dissolved by it. Or again: a form of despair that opens to a form of salvation (the last two verses). Between the loving beings stands a door, both communication and separation, but what separates is vast as an ocean, or as the infinite space of prayer. This half-open (the Door ajar) is the only space of love, and poetry…
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galerie Confluence - Espace de photographie contemporaine
45 rue de Richebourg, 44000 Nantes, France
November 17, 2017 to December 23, 2017
