The World Within - PBF05 / Lucile Boiron
21 January - 27 March 2021
‘‘The being I am waiting for is not real. Like the mother’s breast for the infant, ‘I create and re-create it over and over, starting from my capacity to love, starting from my need for it’: the other comes here where I am waiting, here where I have already created him/ her. And if the other does not come, I hallucinate the other: waiting is a delirium.’’ - Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, 1977.
Lucile Boiron’s pictures speak of longing, of absence, of fantasies, and projection. For her, solitude seems to be the most salutary alternative to the moment she experiences an irrepressible need to have “a room of one’s own”, as described by Virginia Woolf. Lockdown overturns the spaces that melt into one another, while tensions are created between her and others, with the real and the virtual. When the other is nothing but a virtual image and cannot be touched, the screen becomes a receptacle of desire.
