NEROCENERE

Feu la cendre

Lo que queda del fuego

Visual philosophical dissertations on Jacques Derrida.

“Matter that, as the title of the exhibition suggests, is ash, is the result of slow combustion, a process of erosion, erasure and transformation of one substance into another. Thinking about the text “Feu la cendre” by the 7
French philosopher Jacques Derrida (translated, in the Italian edition, as Ciò che resta del fuoco), Jean- Marie Barotte uses poetic and philosophical writing as a pictorial detonator, entrusting the image with the transcription of what has been “given to fire”, remains of a memory, where fragments of words, names, letters surface as findings, clues or wounds.” Chiara Gatti