{"id":857,"date":"2023-06-20T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexlecuiller.com\/?p=857"},"modified":"2025-06-26T19:08:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T17:08:59","slug":"la-ravissement-deurope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexlecuiller.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/20\/la-ravissement-deurope\/","title":{"rendered":"La Ravissement d’Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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selon Moschos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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selon Ovide<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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selon Anne-Marie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This series of drawings is based on the myth of Europa, the princess of Phoenicia (now Lebanon) who was taken from the sea by Zeus and is said to be the origin of the development of the European continent. Through its various versions, this myth explains how European identity is closely linked to population movements, and more specifically to the movement of women. It’s part of the nature of a myth to be aetiological, and the myth of Europe has remained relevant both socially and geographically over the centuries. The myth’s inherent polysemic nature allows me to question our European identity in relation to more contemporary eco-feminist issues. The parallels between the embodiment of power over the spaces in which we live and the power exercised over the territory that is a woman’s body are strikingly echoed in this myth, written over 2,000 years ago. What role has the movement of women in and towards Europe played in our European social and trans-generational construction? What are the new incarnations of Europe? Who are the new Europeans who can justify these plural narratives of migration that make up today’s European identity?
I began a process of research, collecting personal accounts and making preparatory drawings. In each drawing from these women’s stories, I set out to transcribe a moment that echoes either the dream of Europa cited in the myth according to Moschos, or her crossing of the sea, or the violence engendered by this event as in the myths of Ovid and Horace. These drawings will be wood-engraved and then printed in a large series. I’d like these engravings to be like a series of disproportionate postage stamps depicting the contemporary allegories of Europe\u2026 the stamps of this continent with its plural identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cette s\u00e9rie de dessin s’articule autour du mythe d\u2019Europe : cette princesse de Ph\u00e9nicie (actuel Liban) rapt\u00e9e par Zeus au travers des flots serait \u00e0 l\u2019origine du d\u00e9veloppement du continent europ\u00e9en. Ce mythe nous explique au fil de ses diff\u00e9rentes versions comment l\u2019identit\u00e9 europ\u00e9enne est \u00e9minemment li\u00e9e aux mouvements de populations et plus particuli\u00e8rement au d\u00e9placement des femmes. C\u2019est le propre du mythe d\u2019\u00eatre \u00e9tiologique et celui d\u2019Europe a su trouver une actualit\u00e9 sociale et g\u00e9ographique au fil des si\u00e8cles. Le caract\u00e8re polys\u00e9mique inh\u00e9rent au mythe me permet de questionner notre identit\u00e9 europ\u00e9enne au regard de probl\u00e9matiques \u00e9co-f\u00e9ministes plus contemporaines. Le parall\u00e8le fait entre l\u2019incarnation des pouvoirs sur nos espaces de vies et ceux exerc\u00e9s sur le territoire qu\u2019est le corps de la femme trouvent un \u00e9cho \u00e9tonnant en ce mythe \u00e9nonc\u00e9 il y a plus de 2000 ans. Quel r\u00f4le le d\u00e9placement des femmes dans et vers l\u2019Europe a-t-il jou\u00e9 dans notre construction sociale et transg\u00e9n\u00e9rationnelle europ\u00e9enne ? Quelles sont les nouvelles incarnations d\u2019Europe ? Qui sont les nouvelles Europe qui peuvent justifier de ces r\u00e9cits pluriels de migrations qui composent l\u2019identit\u00e9 europ\u00e9enne actuelle ?
J\u2019ai amorc\u00e9 un travail de recherche, de r\u00e9colte de t\u00e9moignages et de dessins pr\u00e9paratoires. Dans chaque dessin issu de ces r\u00e9cits de femmes, je m\u2019attache \u00e0 retranscrire un moment qui ferait \u00e9cho soit au r\u00eave d\u2019Europe cit\u00e9 dans le mythe selon Moschos, soit \u00e0 sa travers\u00e9e de la mer, soit aux violences engendr\u00e9es par cet \u00e9v\u00e9nement comme dans le mythe d\u2019Ovide et d\u2019Horace. Ces dessins seront grav\u00e9s sur bois pour ensuite r\u00e9aliser une grande s\u00e9rie de tirage. J\u2019aimerais que ces gravures soit comme une s\u00e9rie de timbres poste disproportionn\u00e9s qui figureraient les all\u00e9gories contemporaines d\u2019Europe\u2026les timbres de ce continent \u00e0 l\u2019identit\u00e9 plurielle.
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Ils veulent me faire croire que les flancs du taureau sont confortables, que l\u2019eau est chaude, que les feuilles d\u2019acacias ne tombent pas et que l\u2019on fait l\u2019amour sur la plage, que l\u2019on fait l\u2019amour \u00e0 l\u2019adversit\u00e9. Sex on the beach\u2026Je bois la tasse.<\/em>
Je cherche mes s\u0153urs. Toujours trop loin. Si je mets la t\u00eate sous l\u2019eau je vais les entendre chanter. Une \u00e9coute altern\u00e9e, une \u00e9coute alternative entre la surface impossible et les profondeurs opaques.<\/em>
Elles sont rejet\u00e9es en Gr\u00e8ce, en Cr\u00e8te, en Turquie. Non c\u2019est la Ph\u00e9nicie, Non c\u2019est le Liban. Non c\u2019est la Cr\u00eate, Non c\u2019est l\u2019Europe, Non c\u2019est la Turquie. Ventres d\u00e9sormais remplis d\u2019eau sal\u00e9e, innoccupables, inexploitables.<\/em>
M\u00e8re d\u2019un songe, singe d\u2019une m\u00e8re. Grimace de celle qui me ressemble. Elle est du futur et du pass\u00e9. Ses mains tendues s\u2019effritent en petites dunes qu\u2019il faudra gravir, arpenter, fouetter. Apr\u00e8s\u2026 l\u2019odeur des pins viendra s\u00e9cher tout \u00e7a.<\/em>
Mais \u00e7a colle au fond, \u00e7a colle au pied. Arbre qui ne s\u2019\u00e9treint pas, arbre de pique, arbre de c\u0153ur. On refera des cueillettes et des couronnes avant de te br\u00fbler pour revoir briller la lune \u00e0 ton front. Dix personnes par bateau pour disperser les cendres. Six-cent qui font face pour ne pas devenir cendre, ne pas se laisser \u00e9treindre par la m\u00e8re. Ne pas se laisser \u00e9teindre par la mer.<\/em> AL<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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