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In Latin, “ecce homo” means: “here’s man,” in Greek, “homo” means “similar” or “same.” The title therefore calls to mind both the idea of identification and that of self-similarity. It also brings up the notion of appear-ance, that is, how from nothing or more precisely from chaos, from Tohu Bohu in biblical terms, man, the “Glebeous” one, was created, in the sense of he who, emerging from the glebe, comes to be born and is formed. Jean-Claude Meynard In this third part, what is important to me is the notion of genesis, in other words the way things take shape. Every formation and organization implies a change in arrangement or combination, a passage from one state to another, as in crystallization, a passage from a liquid or gaseous state to a solid state, indeed, from unformed, even invisible, matter to formed, structured, visible matter. H-F. D. In observing a cube of snow or ice crystal, we under-stand quite well this shifting from a liquid to a solid state. From there, the construction of an igloo or of a body in any form becomes possible. In “Ecce Homo,” you not only show crystallization but also the following stage, the possible figure. “Ecce Homo” is the stage in which one can simultaneously see the potential of a construction and the constituent elements of this con-struction. Thus, you are showing us a stage previous to the two preceding chapters (“Identity” and “Meta”) where we were heading towards an enlargement. J-C. M. To better understand fractal geometry, its fields of vision and the itineraries it offers, I preferred to show first of all a subject put into perspective in an expo-nential manner along with all the elements necessary for its construction already present and visible. In the works in this series “Ecce Homo,” the elements are present but arranged without any visible organization. The spectator is faced with what is appearing, in the very instant of its construction, faced with this shifting between the un-constructed and the beginning of the visible. There are no reference points, no beginning, H-F. D. So, this part is not “backwards” in relation to the other parts, but rather it is simply inscribed in a logic, albeit a non-classical and non-Euclidean one, a purely fractal logic. This logic, which previously confronted us with a certain order, now confronts us with a disorder. This chaos - as a new initial order - leads us in turntowards a new order. Every order is temporary. Your intention is to play with a state of appearance, of forms and figures, to then drown us in them since everything is endlessly diluted in space. In “Ecce Homo,” the group entitled, H-F. D. It’s exactly like the Narcissus myth. Narcissus, seeing his reflection in the water, leans over to touch it and in so doing he makes ripples and waves that make it indistinct and then drowns in a vanished image of himself. In other words, it is the illusion of contact with what one recognizes, with what one believes to be defined and solid. In the first chapters, proliferation and complexity blurred the image. Here it is a perturbation of the image coming from a change in nature or state of the image. With “Ecce Homo” how do you translate this difference on a plastic level? J-C. M. In this series, the works are constructed like a game of Legos, like mosaics. All the self-similar elements, like a memory of form, fit into each other and link together according to a male-female, positive-negative principle. They fill space according to an arrangement based on empty and full spaces. They are attracted to each other by symmetry and are crystallized to reconstruct a form that has been ordered and is presented in an incomplete and disordered manner. There is one figure to reconstruct from these scattered debris where the spectator is himself included by mirror reflections of his own perturbed image. This blurred image, in the form of fragments, participates in this whole in the processof becoming. |
H-F. D. Exactly, and by integrating him into it, I introduce the principle of “cloning” into my work. The clone, the “homo,” is the same, which recalls that in the phenome-non of the living, we are all similar. H-F. D. The difference is therefore situated only in the reading, in the trajectory followed by the spectator’s eye and his own history, since, in the end, the result is the same for everyone. Even if visually, we are not totally identical, we are indeed all alike in that we have two arms, two legs, one head… We need codes - a name, a social security number - to differentiate ourselves and identify ourselves (i.e., Identity, pp. 19). Nevertheless, it has always been said that in nature, there are no two identical forms … J-C. M. Singularity is limited to a defined period of time. Yet, in the absolute, the particularities are only appearances and only come from a singular arrangement at a given moment in relationship to a whole that replicates itself unchangingly in time (like the figure of the DNA spiral). The model of the living is the same. If we take man as a model of form, but also as a model of reproduction, as memory of form, he reproduces the human, his own form: the living reproduces the living. The replica, the reproduction of the image or of life, always functions according to the same principle, identically the same. |