This selection of 12 drawings from the series Bouches béantes is accompanied by short elliptic and expressionnistic texts. It is an artistic and cathartic production that could be qualified as Art Brut since it was realised in a totally intuitive and spontaneous way and with very rudimentary tools, those that were at my disposal (pencil and lipstick). The colours and grain of the drawings incidentally evoke the tints of prehistorical drawings.

It is a cry of pain and rage, against deficiency ("béance" means gap), emptiness and suffering, a kind of mirror which would reflect a truth hitherto unknown, but which opens up a question. Is it one single figure reflected in a distorting mirror and which includes its own miniaturised form in some of the body areas, a kind of potential excrescence in power? Are there two confrontational figures facing each other or one single figure in a dissociation process?

Black grease pencil (B); red-brownish lipstick; 180 g white drawing paper (24x32 cm).

Clara Maïda, May 2019