Between celestial magic and terrestrial magic,Berquet takes Eros go beyond nudity. In his Miami exhibition, the woman advances, if not hidden at least full of doubt, ornamented with rhinestones and finery that make her the enchantress who summons a system of transfusion and emptying to the very edge of the voyeur’s (weak) will.
In his staging Berquet hangs this voyeur from the gallows. He transforms the present without present into a false artistic certainty where fantasy becomes de rigueur. Apparently the most intimate hygiene remains that of the mind. Some stripping away of layers is the rule. Realities are atheistic and empty vessels. The magic potion seems to be missing. For all that, it is not the sword thrusts in the story of O. It is reloading dreams with deviations and draping. A new drama of sexual desire rises to the surface where the woman seems to desert the image in order to be more present.
Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret
Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret is a poet, critic and lecturer in communications at the Université de Savoie, in France.
