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Enfer of Jean Genet – 2
Texts encrusted with drawings, 1991
 
 
 
 
About this series  
 
35 Indian ink drawings on paper. Jean Genet's text, recounting the death of Harcamone, is encrusted with drawings.
 
 
 
What Micheline LO said about it  
 
The series comprises [...] thirty-five small Indian ink drawings which encrust Jean Genet's text recounting the death of Harcamone.
 
 
 
What Henri VAN LIER said about it  
 
Micheline Lo was particularly fond of Bach's Saint Matthew Passion. La Mort d'Harcamone became her passion according to Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr, to quote the bold title which Sartre gave to his lengthy essay on the novelist bandit and playwright. The writer of Flexte copied the meanders of the text, both as a sequence of words and as a sequence of phantasms. Valéry's La Jeune Parque had not stepped down so hollow-sounding a stairwell, for she finally uttered: "Come lower. Speak lower (...) Black is not so black."