Vaguely light

“Everything starts with one initial gesture or in the breath of a first word. But something has already happened. In the image, outdoors or indoors, following the lie of the land, he and she join in the game.”

“Everything starts with one initial gesture or in the breath of a first word. But something has already happened.  In the image, outdoors or indoors, following the lie of the land, he and she join in the game. Let’s name them: Luis and Else… Between them, a prop, a table, something unbearable. She lies down. He sits there. Again she says to him, ‘Don’t lie!’ More or less offhand, he replies, ‘It’s vague!’. It is happening now… After meetings, impacts, a confrontation of the bodies begins. A duel of a relationship that explores its erosion between humour and seriousness. There is something absurd, alarming and obsessional in the litany of words and remarks which repeat and merge. Whether bending under the weight of waiting, or confronting each other over this table, the time of their relation and its episodes appears fragmented, a distortion which reflects how we exhaust and re-conquer ourselves. Past, present or future, or in disorder, the story told by the bodies repeats and yet fades with a splendid and unsustainable lightness”.

Source: Hervé Robbe