Pierre Cendors & Claire Chesnier, Ed. L’atelier contemporain, Strasbourg

“Everything depends on the moment. It is the moment that determines life.” Pierre Cendors' L'Horizon d'un instant (The Horizon of a Moment) is inspired by this striking phrase from Franz Kafka, the “Wolf of Bohemia” as he calls him. It expresses a desire to intensify every moment of our wandering life through cosmic murmurs: “Let us not seek to leave the moment before its incandescence arrives. Let us allow its deposit to grow continuously within us.” L'horizon d'un instant bears witness to a great attention to earthly presences and to a poetic act embodied, day after day, over several months, in a mountainous location, in contact with the silent forces of life. Silent, yet speaking to those who allow themselves to be swept away by their wild whispers. This requires a shift in perspective and listening: "Listening intently to non-human presences: those of the cloud hordes above the land, those of the stones, springs, and forests massed on the ground, which are endlessly lashed by the downpour of light. “ To let these cloud hordes, these showers of light, these ancient nights pass between the lines, Pierre Cendors plays with the white expanse of the pages, which becomes an image of silent immensity. Like a glimmer in these virgin spaces, a dialogue between two inner voices unfolds.

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