L’homme paysage

« My name is Xavier Deutsch
From this name I have stripped myself, I have stripped myself, I have stripped myself. I have renounced, for this time of creation, what made me a named man.
I went forward as I was in myself.
I offered myself, I offered my nakedness to Dorothée Wycart, I entrusted it to her. Let her use it!
I do not have the means to know the references of her work, I do not discern the cultural, mythical, poetic, philosophical humus from which her works have emerged.
I like not knowing. I like to be offered, present, silent.
So I have been there. I saw things take on an outline, a twist that passed the arm around the universe.
Dorothée Wycart arranged me, just as a sculptor arranges a block of clay.
Dorothée Wycart shaped images, she kneaded them, formed them, erected them. I was standing on that patch of earth and grass, under the tree, in the light, and I didn’t say a word.
Dorothée Wycart was doing her work in the light, and I was part of that work.
In that garden, I was like a mute Adam born from the hands of Dorothee Wycart. I was naked, I was silent, I was a bit of earth and a bit of tree and sky.
Creation consists in this, in making a new being emerge from the earth by hand, in lighting a star in its eye and blowing on it.

I question the relationship to the universe through the body and raise one of the major issues of our civilization in crisis: rethinking the human being in synergy with the earth. The human being, no longer apprehended as an entity, but fragmented, now evolves in a nature where the borders between species become permeable. These forms expose the similarity of organs which suggests a movement of one form into another, between the small body and the large.

My work on the body seeks to get closer to the essence of things; the body in its openness where the human, the vegetable, the mineral and the animal are united by vital energy.

The body as a place of exchange and metamorphosis. My work questions the relationship between man and nature and the cosmos.