1 / PLURAL
IDENTITY
THE SINGULARITY
Séroux is therefore a plural artist, with a multiple identity who maintains an infinite conversation with his various heteronyms. From this awareness of his existential diversity, he forms a collective that enables him to visualise and produce a variety of evocations of intimate experiences.
DEFINITION
A heteronym is a pseudonym that develops a life as a distinct entity with its own sensibility. Each heteronym develops its own technique, its own style, its own ideas, its own impulses, its own way of doing and perceiving.
THE COLLECTIVE
SEROUX & DAVID REALH / ALEX SVI /
ZORAH SOMEXKI / PAUL QWEST & Co
EGO STATES
Defined by psychiatrist Eric Bernstein, the founder of transactional analysis in the 1960s, these states help us to better understand the diversity of our relationships with the world, with others and with ourselves.
Séroux
The adult state
David Realh
the child state
Alex Svi
the parent state
Zorah Somexki
represents the collective memory through her collection of found photographs
Others
Max Ghabor, for example, has collected traces of extraordinary intimate and sensual lives.
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A CHORAL WORK
LITERATURE
Fernando Pessoa
The Portuguese writer (1888 - 1935) is a multiple author. His notable heteronyms are :
Alberto Caeiro, nature poet. Ricardo Reis, classical and stoic. Álvaro de Campos, modern and futurist.
Bernardo Soares, ‘assistant’ author.
Romain Gary
Born Roman Kacew in Vilnius, he arrived in France at the age of 14. He was Fosco Sinibaldi, Shatan Bogat, Émile Ajar, Romain Gary, Lucien Brulard, René Deville... He won the Goncourt Price twice without anyone noticing.
‘I've always been someone else’.
2 / PRESENTATION
OF EACH
1 / SÉROUX
THE PAINTER
His painting is based on organised thought. The representation is structured in a figurative, rational way, attached to perspective. It conveys emotions while avoiding the impulsive reactions of the child state, which is taken into account by his alter-equal David Realh. A kind of melancholy can bring to mind a kind of emptiness that turns its back on us, the eloquence of silence.
PAINTING
WORKS ON PAPER
PHOTOGRAPHY
2 / DAVID REALH
THE GRAPHOMAN
When a child appears,
he is born with all the nuances of the world.
It has its demands, its ambitions.
It is the child in me that creates me.
ELIE WIESEL
More than the rational ‘knowing-thinking’ of the philosophers, it is the ramblings, the childishness, the dreams, the ecstasies and vertigo, the ‘without thinking about it’, that form the basis of David Realh's discoveries.
It expresses authentic and spontaneous desires, fears, joys, suffering, impulses and memories. He feeds on emotional reactions, in response to external stimuli perceived as provocations.
His drawings suggest an artist who lives each stroke, each line as a means of living out his obsessions through an acute spatial sense. Especially in the complex scenes, this causes the trashy backgrounds to topple and bend as the figures rush towards us...
He who hides his madman dies speechless.
Henry Michaux
The creative process can be described as a temporary, compulsory psychosis. So it's no accident that the artist is ‘mad’: it's a necessity. More often than not, he will not remain in the state of madness; he will merely pass through it; sometimes he will linger. But his norm as an artist always requires him to go through an essential syncopation, a real collapse of the spirit, from which the new will emerge. Better still, only the new can emerge from this chaos. This eclipse that shatters consciousness is the very condition of the creative act.
Anton Ehrenzweig - The Hidden Order of Art
3 / ALEX SVI
THE TALMUDIST
The answer is yes.
But what was the question?
Woody Allen
Where and to whom are these questions being asked? Why does the ‘Talmudist’ in the team manifest himself in typographic form? How does he explore the attitudes, beliefs, values, norms and benevolent criticisms that he has inherited and assimilated through his upbringing in the broadest sense, collecting questions like others go to mushrooms? Are they all edible?
New york 2012
Rencontres d'Arles 2016
4 / THE SOMEXKI
COLLECTION
ARTWORKS WITHOUT ARTISTS
The ideal reader reads all literature
as if it were anonymous.
Alberto Manguel
Involuntary memory
Zorah Somexki presents historical and intimate memories through her collection of found, anonymous photographs. The photographs are used as they are, and sometimes graphically reproduced.
Artwork without an artist
Sometimes a work of art is not the result of any intention, if its quality is there for all to see. It opens doors for us that sometimes only we can see.
5 / THE QWEST
Collection
MISCELLANEOUS WORKS
5 / GHABOR
COLLECTION
Intimate exploration
For a particular project, an unexpected search, Séroux gives himself a new heteronym to meet a special circumstance.
Beneath all the sweetness of the flesh
there is the permanence of a danger.
Marcel Proust
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