THE BIRTH OF THE MINOTAUR

The artistic world, presented here, is reminiscent of how «Georges Bataille in the theme of the Minotaur, considered the birth of Man as from the origine his animal nature. In Bataille’s view, there is a profound link between both. For him, in order to regain his sacred character, man had to plunge back into animality. He would thereby don the prestige derived from the innocence of the animal”.
The photographic work produced by the Minotaur, draws its sources on worlds as different as anthropology, psychoanalysis, fantastic and magical.

Each work session is experienced as a ritual in which the alchemy of the performance reveals the artist’s unconscious work. He gleans and collects decorative pieces of scenery and costumes or seeks out locations whose aesthetic quality transcends ordinary erotic or pornographic imagery. Bodies clothed in these rags are projected into magical spaces and offer this crude transgression of the perception of our bodies.

Needless to say, while exotism and extra-western cultural references used by The Minotaur summon up the structure of our psyche, a myriad of symbolic forms also spring to life.

At the furthermost bounds of imagination and its representations, his photos evoke the possible existence of primordial images in our sexuality and our desires.

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