POEMES, FAKE HAÏKUS FOR AN AUTOFICTION

Beyond our bodies’ is a series of writings and performances with their residual pieces.

These poems were written daily, in the form of a diary, to follow the evolution of the character I created. A black angel evolving in contact with Riyad’s city and nature. A story of lost wings and found skins…

Haïkus written as part of my ‘Intermix’ residency, subsidised by the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Culture in cooperation with the Saudi Arabian Fashion Commission. Cycle 2, April-July 2024.

Digital photography. Performance number 2. “Black angel”. Art paper , 178/90 cm, 2024

21-04-2024 – 26-05-2024

If gold comes out of our eyes 

Horizontal letting go 

hits Solar events

Dreams without tomorrow

hypnotized by the desert

„M’aimeriez vous danser?“

Waved presents in a Snake embrace

26-05-2024 – 07-06-2024

Monkey stick 

didn’t touch 

deep enough to play 

Submerged 

Set in fire a fluid prayer

Out of my mind, enter my body 

To dodge the cloud before the icy lair

Frozen wings of desire

Trash for protection stifling intuition

to balance a loss of power 

Just a maze illusion

for a treasure trove 

07-06-2024 – 14-06-2024

Pest control

Burn out parasites

Care and Isolation

Apologizes into perspectives

I saw through their fused eyes

Vibrating universal foliage

Expanding some possibilities 

beyond our bodies

We replaced things

shifting some of the living 

some of the dead 

Moving spirits, men, women

Minds and concepts extending lonely feelings

Time for reconciliation 

by climax farewell 

Let me believe the last

it wasn’t a medium’ smack

15/06/2024 – 22/06/2024

Silk threads Minotaur shell

Crush skull to feed black fire

Fullness of the female cavity 

singing to celebrate heroes 

of the great vacancy 

Buried strips of gold powder

a game of patience

straddling the sewing machine

Erase to raise coincidences 

we‘ve lost much wealthier

crawling a desert skin 

in the sound of criss-crossing waves

take and leave

released 

„My sublime desire is devoted to the peace

Of love that governs storms, wars,

The soaring of wings towards the celestial blue,

And the falls into the abysses, and the miseries.“

Kathleen Raine. Azraël. 

Garance Arcadias 

22/06/2024 – 30. 06.2024

Elusive return

I’m ready to take the crumbs 

to fast from craving

You brushed me again 

blooming poison corolla 

to splash her picnic

one electric tongue

searching how to disappear 

enough of your presence

beach interaction 

cruel tinnitus i you

she knows masochism

lie to try within 

a zero ego degree 

how to reach you as sadist   

take me without risk 

of ephemeral abandon 

take me at solstice

between us the moon 

dig the crest of brittle dunes 

to face the still sun

pulls my sleeve-wings

punches two angels appart 

from forbidden fruit 

your sated serpent

observes the scene where alone

my fist hits the sand 

for the missing sound

Impotence of our bodies

to redden your hearts 

Vidéo de la performance “Orphée” disponible sur instagram: garance_arcadias