Christine Coste: À rebours (Backward), 2026
Exhibition at the CCCLB / Contemporary Ceramics Centre of La Borne, La Borne, 2026
“We are in the smoking room of a grand house; the man has left the room. Only the acrid smell of cigar smoke mingled with cold sweat lingers. A torn club chair sits in the centre of the room. On the wall, a ghostly landscape screams the silent story it conveys. Opposite me there is a little girl watching me. Her stocky build, her head tucked into her shoulders, her stubborn expression reveal a strong animalistic quality, immediately offset by the innocence of her porcelain complexion. Using her chubby fingers, she turns me around so that she can see my face. Her beautiful, deep, dark eyes stare into mine. She tells me about her secret world of steep paths passing through forests, thickets, couch grass and broom. Her world is populated by creatures with the heads of dogs, flies and crows, and the bodies of vipers, spiders and jellyfish. Her enormous, solitary world overwhelms and destroys her. This world she does not understand, yet has lived through, the world of incest given shape and substance by the adult she has become, and who I am.”
Photos © Pascal Vangysel
