Mètis

A meeting between friends two sculptors Vincent Barré and Richard Deacon The studio a space for producing sculptures and for conversation and a frame assigned to the camera But its also the camera that commands us to leave this studio to open up to another archaic workspace at the foundry to open to its darkness dotted by incandescence And then even more openness in a backward movement the filmed image goes back to the source of its sculpted shapes Images as proof of their relation the landscape and rites in the Mediterranean parade Cistercian architecture in Provence ancient Greek sites Holy Week processions in Sicily Slowly reminiscence returns accompanied by essential texts Empedocles and Bataille read by Françoise Lebrun Then what was supposed to be illuminated gets blurred what was supposed to guide gets scattered Instead of informing form gets deformed