Constellation Bobin Leprest

“The darkness must become more pronounced for the first star to appear” Christian Bobin

“The darkness must become more pronounced for the first star to appear” writes Christian Bobin. We will therefore go dark to give birth to a galaxy. The one who can connect the books of Christian Bobin to the songs of Allain Leprest, crossed by friendly comets.

There will be God and his absence, Pierre Soulages and Edith Piaf, Le Creusot, the island of Malenfant, secrets exchanged in the night, the Plus-Que-Vive, sublime sentences, sorrows carried proudly, a race with a ant, with a piano and a voice.

In the manner of the Giacometti / Beckett, or Bacon / Freud exhibitions, which attempt to highlight the deep kinship between two artists, I want to create a dialogue between the works of these two poets, that of the hermit du Creusot and that of witnessing the lives of others in Ivry-sur-Seine.

A constellation therefore, open to infinity.

Give pride of place to this writer whom the world and literary criticism, after praising him, sought to destroy and who, without ever having left Le Creusot where he was born, except for a handful of days, understood everything about it. human condition. “Everything is everywhere we are.”

Sing the words of Allain Leprest who knew how to sublimate the ridiculous, the tragic and the humor of the pillars of bistros and become the portraitist of human matter. Without reducing the work to the lives of the humble, Leprest took up their phrasing, their expressions, a bit like Georges Perros, with panache.

Disillusionment with style.

"Naked, I lived naked
Shipwrecked from birth
On the Island of Childhood
From which no one has returned"

“If my sentences smile, it’s because they come out of the dark. I have spent my life fighting against persuasive melancholy. My smile costs me a fortune.”