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Euro-Mediterranean
My Mediterranean together
I firmly fix in Béziers my Mediterraneans together, thus finding a Mediterranean multiplied and gathered, a unique Mediterranean declension, an original and primeval Mediterraneity. Anchorage with no steadiness however and who makes use of its fluid ropes. The physical spaces inspire me for their plurality: Canal du Midi, beaches of the littoral, Orb, arenas, garden of the poets…
Saint-Nazaire Cathedral, high place of this attractive Mediterranean because of its transverse abilities that I apply to my creation universe. I honor a sort of continuous invitation to travel, travel into the languages, capital travel, among which the presence of the CIRDOC, who is emblematic for all the languages, even beyond its services for the Occitan language.
Travel above all into my own artistic language.
Orb
The river crosses Béziers and joins the Mediterranean Seae
Canal du Midi or or the Two-seas Canals
A work dealing with the link, symbol of Pierre-Paul Riquet’s talent, of the genius, the perseverance and the obstacles overcame, of the resolutions and solutions to find some ways to communicate.
When I was a little girl, my father drove me to the locks of Fontserranes. I will forever be fascinated by those contradictory movements of the water canalized by men: extreme slow and huge strength.
Personal involvement in theatrical happenings around the Canal du Midi.
Garden of the Poets in Béziers Occitane Besiers
At the heart of the city, at the end of the Paul Riquet Alley in bloom, there is a fascinating garden where my grand mother used to walk with me and where we could admire some busts of poets and wonderful sculptures made by the owner of the Rome Prize Injalbert, representing some swans slowly sliding along in an immense pool. Even more beautiful than the garden of the bishops down the cathedral. I keep in mind images of a garden without any wall. I fixed myself into it. With all those anchorages, I travel.
“I dreamed about this rose, Ophelia’s daughter, with a countess name, with a “long heart”, whose fawn becomes salmon and on the petal’s wrong side turns coppery and almost orange.”<
Maurice Genevoix, Images for a garden without walls.
Arènes
Long ago, the total show reigned.
Robert Cavalié, Jacques Nougaret told me many times in their works “In the name of the fathers, their sons and their spirits, so be Béziers”, “the golden age of the opera in the arenas of Béziers”, but above all in the pure transmission and fervor of the oral tradition.
In this bull fighting place one can hear the echoes of the songs, the declamation and tragic poetry.
« “Claiming the Mediterranean tradition implies reinventing this cultural reality where the apollonian and the Dionysian, the catharsis and the political discourse, the sanctified and the secular, the debate and the fair, the imagination and the appearance, the narrator and the character, belong to one only controversial speech. Collective space that maybe never existed, its parts intertwine in a web that lies into the intuitive memory of millions of mediterreans.” José Monléon » José Monleón