For the Cosmopoem project, the idea of a black cube that would be dismantled on stage quickly seemed obvious to me.


I think the image of the cube is a strong image. It is a simple shape, with no surprises, no top or bottom, no front or back. Directly legible, directly graspable... It's also a figure that brings the three spatial dimensions back to a sort of orthonormic coordinate system, which concentrates the shape into an original point. In this sense, it makes it both an All and a Unity, a globality as well as a constituent. It's really something powerful and mysterious that dialogs with the unconscious. I thought deconstructing a cube was like trying to break through its mystery. This is comparable in substance to human logic, to the mental pattern leading to the understanding of things.

And then there's the stage game...
For me, Nathalie's performance act is a human positioning, it's the positioning of Men in the face of this mystery. It's the human presence. This is the act of understanding. Not an explanation of things, but just a fact, a presence, an existence.
And simultaneously, it's also a confrontation. Between Nathalie and the Object. Between the feminine and the masculine. A kind of fusion of complementarities. An interaction, an oscillation between poetic and logical parts of the human soul...