A COLLECTIVE
20 PAGES
SIX HETERONYMS
A PRECAUTION
This chapter presents each artist or collector at the beginning of their development.
It's only later, by combining all the completed works, that Paul Qwest proceeds, to create the final pieces who are presented exclusively in the ARTWORKS menu.
THREE ARTISTS
THREE COLLECTIONS
THE SOMEXKI
COLLECTION
3 PAGES
PRESENTATIONS / ORDINARY LIFES /
EXTRAORDINARY LIFES / CINEMA /
PORN CENSORSHIP
A PHILOSOPHICAL
LIBIDO
KNOWLEDGE AS ITS PURPOSE
Most of the people we meet
are seeking social recognition,
external validation (success, status,
emotional admiration, etc.)
There are people, perhaps like you,
who absolutely reject this standard drive
and the resulting dependence,
on the petty business of seduction and success.
For them, the essential lies in an adventure
made of research, intellectual play, with a view to
innovations, inventions, and discoveries
LIBIDO SCIENDI
“All men have a natural desire to know.”
Aristotle states this in the very first sentence of his Metaphysics.
Libido, the desire to know, is the basis of our natural curiosity.
For the philosopher, the desire to learn is natural and begins with the simple act of turning our eyes to take an interest in what is happening.
I hear laughter, I perceive a crowd, I want to know.
But clearly, scientific research is not solely driven by the pursuit of rational knowledge, just as artistic research is not solely concerned with discovering new forms of expression:
Art and Science are inextricably linked to a history of desires and feelings.
LIBIDO SENTIENDI
The libido sciendi is the desire to know.
The libido sentiendi is erotic, relational desire.
The link between the desire to know—the libido sciendi—and erotic desire—the libido sentiendi—becomes explicit from the Renaissance onward and plays a crucial role in the development of modern science and contemporary art.
Whether one is a scientist or an artist, the relationships between these beings, driven by their natural desires, and other men and women in their environment, are constantly evolving in all areas of creative expression.
These different forms of desire are at the heart of what is at stake here, beyond the scientist's desire to know and the artist's desire to discover.