Fidèle à l'éclair

In the wake of solo Des Taureaux dans la tête, Fidèle à l’éclair marks the beginning of The Scarecrow Cycle, a series dedicated to this emblematic figure. The series includes solos Fidèle à l’éclair (Claudio Stellato), havran (Jaro Vinarsky) and babil (Eric Domeneghetty), trio Humus vertebra (Eric Domeneghetty, Claudio Stellato, Jaro Vinarsky) that gathers all three figures in one piece, as well as solo Benedetto Pacifico (Guillermo Weickert Molina) that was created in 2011. 

The scarecrow figure

A poet of ancient times who reigns at the crossroad of fields, the scarecrow is difficult to describe: for Karine Ponties, it is both a touching and contradictory figure, like a lonely soldier who’s never actually scared anyone. This vertical being is a man’s double, the self-portrait of a being that keeps its own name under silence. A being left to its own devices, a being in full release.

Fidèle à l’éclair

Karine Ponties tackled this process starting from a body, the body of the bogeyman. The bogeyman is a universal figure that gathers all sorts of frightening characters. Its function is to scare and its role is to warn children about moments or places that are considered dangerous. Coming and going with strange gestures, he gives the impression of an otherworldly being that would be weakened by the approach of a human face, and who fully takes on his duty as a righter of wrongs. 

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