The designer pursues his intimate archeology Twins, the third volume dedicated to his childhood. With her unique, hilarious and poignant tone, she immerses us in the unsettling experience of twinhood, always so liberating.
Back Twins, he begins the last part of the most original autobiographical trilogy ever made. He tells the story of his youth through his relationship with animals Cruelto sexuality The maidto twinship Twins. So we find her family developing in expat Buenos Aires, then in France at the Nagot estate, a father obsessed with his work, a neglected stay-at-home mother and a child reluctant to embrace Catholicism. We also find his tragicomic line, in the series of Reiser and Bretecher, with drawing and “moving” figures.
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Miss Figaro. – Why were you interested in twins? ?
Florence Dupre La Tour. – It is an experience of rare intensity that raises questions about myself and my relationship to the other. “Who am I ?” is a universal question, but which twins have had earlier. Am I the child of my parents? No, because from the self-made seed… I am the first. Did our parents confuse us at birth? And this identity disorder will be accentuated by our physical and satirical likeness constructed by others who like to play on this likeness.
There gender issue back to your work… When do you feel like a girl or a boy? Is it because of the models that shape you or is it a more intimate feeling?
I don’t have the answer, but within the framework of the twin pair, I kept the role of the boy. Because there wasn’t a boy among the siblings yet? Because I assigned it myself? In any case, I wanted to embody masculine values with my sister. This reflected the culture in which I was immersed; my reading heroes were endowed with positive vigor, the heroines were always tasteless.
Want to break taboos? ?
That is one of my driving forces, but I stay within the family circle. I told what we did not say in our parents (love, sexuality), but also in the twin pair. Between us, we didn’t really talk, that would be to risk saying that we like each other too much or disagree, thus breaking the harmony. Also, my sister, who has read the other parts, doesn’t want to Twins. The love of the relationship goes into silence. We’d rather keep quiet and take bad care of our partner than risk it. It is a passionate relationship, as in a couple in love.
You go from black and white to Cruel in the rainbow of Twins...
I started with the simplest: back Cruelto go The maidwhere I used two tones of red and pink to tell the story of flesh and blood before getting to the most complex, Twins, with the enrichment of colors, but where yellow is absent. I wanted to stay within the range of the binocular tones (blues and reds) and from there explored bluish greens and slightly reddish browns.
Source: Le Figaro
