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Havran
Solo from the Scarecrow Cycle
In the wake of solo Des Taureaux dans la tête, havran is the second piece 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.
havran
A body carrying the horizon’s curved line on its back. A sign carved in a landscape in black ink. An elegant sign, calmly walking about the earth, taking off effortlessly and gliding over the world. A crow, symbol of bad luck, because it occasionally is a scavenger and has always accompanied men on battlefields, through disasters. But also a sign of life.
A being in perpetual metamorphosis that tries to ground itself in a framework by imitating the animal it is meant to keep away. Open to the winds, permanently traversed by draughts. A reminder of those new, modern attempts at deterrents, with scarecrows that are truer than life: bodies of dead birds exhibited in postures of alarm, ready for flight.
