{"id":409833,"date":"2026-09-21T15:40:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/?post_type=product&#038;p=409833"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:04:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:04:59","slug":"embrasser-linevitable-lange-et-la-faucheuse","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/artwork\/embrasser-linevitable-lange-et-la-faucheuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Embrasser l\u2019in\u00e9vitable, l\u2019ange et la faucheuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Embrasser l\u2019in\u00e9vitable \u2014 L\u2019Ange &amp; La Faucheuse<\/p>\n<p>This sculpture enters into dialogue with the poetic figure of La Faucheuse, immortalized by Victor Hugo in Mors, from Les Contemplations (1856). Hugo evokes Death as a dark, skeletal presence moving through the world with her scythe, gathering everything in her path. <\/p>\n<p>I wanted to revisit this powerful image from another perspective. Rather than depicting Death as something to escape, I imagined an Angel embracing the Faucheuse \u2014 not to defeat her, but to acknowledge her.<\/p>\n<p>Two figures become one embrace: life and death, fear and acceptance, the human and the inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>The work explores the possibility of transforming our relationship with mortality: <br \/>\nwhat if, instead of fighting the inevitable, we could embrace it?<\/p>\n<p>Hand-modelled and cast in bronze, the sculpture retains the tactile irregularities of the original modelling. <br \/>\nIts dark brown patina reinforces the contrast between the weight of mortality and the tenderness of the embrace.<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019Ange &amp; La Faucheuse<\/p>\n<p>La Faucheuse m\u2019a hant\u00e9e longtemps.<\/p>\n<p>Je crois qu\u2019elle est entr\u00e9e dans mon imaginaire bien avant que je sache lui donner un nom \u00e0 travers les pages de la litt\u00e9rature fran\u00e7aise, \u00e0 travers cette pr\u00e9sence sombre et silencieuse qui revient, encore et encore, pour nous rappeler que rien de vivant n\u2019\u00e9chappe au temps.<\/p>\n<p>Puis il y eut Victor Hugo.<\/p>\n<p>Dans Les Contemplations, dans \u00ab Mors \u00bb, la Mort devient une Faucheuse immense, celle qui avance dans le monde et moissonne les vies.<\/p>\n<p>Cette image est rest\u00e9e quelque part en moi.<\/p>\n<p>Elle m\u2019a accompagn\u00e9e.<br \/>\nElle m\u2019a inqui\u00e9t\u00e9e.<br \/>\nElle m\u2019a fascin\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<p>Aujourd\u2019hui, j\u2019ai voulu lui donner un autre visage.<\/p>\n<p>Je n\u2019ai pas voulu repr\u00e9senter la Mort comme une ennemie.<br \/>\nJe n\u2019ai pas voulu la faire fuir.<\/p>\n<p>J\u2019ai imagin\u00e9 un Ange qui l\u2019enlace.<\/p>\n<p>Deux corps.<br \/>\nDeux pr\u00e9sences.<br \/>\nUne seule \u00e9treinte.<\/p>\n<p>Et dans cette \u00e9treinte, je ne sais plus laquelle console l\u2019autre.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/artist\/nicole-sarkis\/\">Nicole Sarkis<\/a>","protected":false},"author":3267,"featured_media":409838,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"o","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_cat":[502,180],"product_tag":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/409833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=409833"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=409833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}