Vidya Gastaldon: J’aurais voulu qu’on s’aime tous

“For an artist, it is an ecstasy to see this, a black house, burnt, glittering with coal, purged of its substance, skeletal and sublime like a temple.

I am not upset; I am burnt, pierced like St Sebastian and your windows, I am fearless, uncaptured like your roof, without a head, nothing stands in the way of the pure light of the moon and the sun, my heart is in the air, my clothes are burnt, I am naked, definitely new like you.

This fire is not an outcome but a confirmation of my complete opening to fire, to what is there.

We are alive.”

Excerpt from the press release, written by the artist.