” A dyslexic child painstakingly draws pages of monsters. Giving them a form reduces their immensity, intensity and anguish. The sheet traps them with its edges. The sharper they are, the better they are tamed. »
Inspired by these guardian devils of childhood, the artist and architect Alessandro Mendini in turn executes a series of drawings. In a game of improvisation where the image emerges the word, Erri De Luca composes facing these thirty-five boards as many texts that respond to them. He thus reconciles the image, which claims that the writing is only a subtitle, with the writing, which claims that the image is only illustration.
Guest : Erri DeLuca, writer, poet and translator. He started writing at age eleven. In 2002, he won the Femina Foreign Prize for his book Montedidio and the European Prize for Literature in 2013, as well as the Ulysses Prize for his body of work.