The ethnology of love – 66°N 1936
Once upon a time…
No, this is not a tale and Paul-Emile Victor is not a legend. He’s simply a man who had dreams and gave himself the ability to actually create and live them.
In 1934, Paul-Emile Victor forced a meeting with Jean-Baptiste Charcot. He convinced him to leave him and his three companions on the east coast of Greenland in order to study for one year the unknown inhabitants from the Angmassalik district. His second trip, from 1936 to 1937, enabled him to intensively live what he would later call his Ethnology of Love and established the foundation of his humanism.
“Among the Eskimos, I was participating. I was hunting, I was fishing, I was hungry, I was cold or warm with my Eskimo companions. I was dependent on them. They were dependent on me. I was receiving and giving. I discovered freedom. The only one, the one of being […] Through their contact, I learned to love. To be loved. I learned how to look at others, not according to their behavior, their words, their aspects, their need to pretend […] to never look at others as if he possesses some good. To always be up for it – never against. I learned how to be a man. I had become a man.”
L’iglou, Daphne VICTOR.
April 6th – May 6th 2012
Jardin des Bigotes, Vannes
