The dynamic
of the parental square, acrylic painting on canvas, 95 x 153 cm, 2014
The development of the infans’ mythic fabulations is determined
inside the frame of the parental square by the mother, the father, the baby and
the other (the society). This mapping
is of course too geometrical and its equilibrium – or unbalance – depends on
the dynamic and tensions between the imagos
and roles of the actors.
I tried therefore to express here these
dynamics showing that the mother maintains her intense link with the baby, but
that the new born world takes the lead, meanwhile the father appears aside, under
the influence of the other, which
will gain prominence, but keeps a lateral power at the beginning in comparison
with the biological determinants.
The chaotic
stage which emerges with the birth starts immediately troubling this nice
matrix, and will for sure never fully disappear, even in the adult stage. Myself being born in
October 1941 in Paris occupied by the Nazis, l for sure keep in my unconscious
memory a deep inscription not only from my own emotions due to the biological
chaos which overwhelmed me at the time of my birth, but also of my parents
scared by the Second world war. I marked them by saturating the rectangle of
the canvas with black disordering threatening shapes. Other parental squares
may look much less dramatic.
