The Durst Gallery asked each artist to reveal a glimpse of their creativity, on a subject of their choice and using a medium of their choice.
Here is Laurent Karagueuzian’s blank page :
The Laboratory of Non-Figures
In the Maelstrom of colors, silences and storms alternate their melody.
Drowned in a tangle of lines, meaning remains indecipherable.
One must learn to see at night, advance cautiously, not fall,
walk beneath the resistance of curves and the pride of straight lines.
When the horizon drifts away to the rhythm of wild strides:
Secret boots, seven-league boots. Slow flashes of insight.
Small gray gouaches dance along the thread of bluish water.
Decisions follow one another in their coherent contradictions
as the morning mist dissipates the arrogance of backlighting.
In the Laboratory of Non-Figures, a strange polyphony murmurs.
A rustling of leaves carries everything in its path.
The warmth of ochres delicately burns the skin.
Shivers travel over the petals, subtle fragrances, all the way to the Cape of Good Hope.
Somewhere, further on, the world-book reveals its joyful tautologies.
Under the northern light, young swallows whirl at the zenith. Freedom.