Chauve-souris

Description

This bat is drawn in India ink directly onto a book page.
Its spread wings partially cover the text, fragmenting it without canceling it out.
The words remain visible but are stripped of their authority: they become background, matter, noise.

The figure asserts itself in a dense, nervous black, almost violent in places. The animal's body seems torn from the page, caught in a moment of suspension—neither flight nor fall. A nocturnal, archaic presence that traverses the support without submitting to it.

Here, the book is no longer a space for reading but a territory occupied.
On this page by Antonin Artaud, the animal acts as a shamanic figure.

The bat serves as a symbol of reversal: it inhabits the shadow, sees differently, and transforms the text into a landscape.

Pièce Unique.