Musical reading

“The more alive it is, the more it dies.” Who is behind this enigmatic evocation? The glacier, of course, or more precisely the 274,531 glaciers recorded worldwide, from the Alps to Antarctica, from the Andes to Alaska. These glaciers, whose creaking, cracking, and trickling are the direct manifestation of a tragic melting that nothing seems able to stop anymore. Bruno Doucey counters this sense of impending doom with the mobilizing power of poetry. From one text to the next, he invites us to “write, paint, dance on the ice” to tear apart the language of the glaciers, to listen to the bear, the petrel, and the fox… Carried by artist Esther Szac’s “typo-glace” work, the signs become, in turn, snowflakes or ice floes of words, transforming the snow-covered space of the page. A polar book, so that the beauty of the world does not melt away in our hands.