“Each work has an unconscious which escapes the artist”
How has the deciphering of art inspired you?
Faced with Water lilies by Claude Monet, I felt a discomfort so contrary to the general feeling that I questioned myself. The idea was to put my own words on this masterpiece. In my opinion, each work has a truth, an unconscious which escapes the artist. Monet said he painted light and the present moment, but my investigation led me to think that he painted something completely different from simple flowers of water.
Your Bmore detective is working hard to “ leave nothing in the shadows ». For what?
Because the darkness arrived so quickly… To shed all light is to escape from the incomprehensible. It goes back to childhood: why do the stars shine at night? Here, I wanted to understand why Monet, for thirty years, represented hundreds of water lilies. Encyclopedists defined knowledge based on three faculties: reason, memory and imagination. These are the people I use in my investigations.
What does fiction bring to the reader compared to documentary?
The difference lies in where we speak from. A documentary is driven by the desire to render reality objectively. It’s a journalist’s job, where the “I” doesn’t really have a place; whereas, in a writer’s work, it has its full place. More precisely, I start from myself to elucidate reality. They are two different paths but the goal is the same: to tell the truth of the world.