Bend Over And Testicle Hurts

Forgetting oblivion

Call 2010 ultimate

The Life is so obvious that we live without worrying about what it really is. Like the air we breathe, life is invisible. We are so totally one with it that we forget. Now it happened that we have so forgotten what life we missed our forgetfulness.

This oversight of forgetting is not to be confused with the happy carefree life that draws unceasingly in his inexhaustible force, it is rather a dramatic break with what we truly are: the living in life. A form dramatic and far-reaching consequences of this omission is to conceive of life as a biological process reduced science to chemical sequences.

Another, older, is to define life only as our existence in the world and time, since our arrival in the world until the day we leave. Both the outward forms of life take place in the world.


What rediscovering phenomenology of Michel Henry's life is that life has no place in the exteriority of the world, nor even in his time, it takes place in the interior of every living, even more it is his interiority itself. The life we have forgotten, that we shall look in vain where it never appears: in the world, the true life forgets us not because it is our life immanent, our selfhood. !

No living has never brought himself in life, rather it is life that gives each and everyone in it to himself at every moment. Life is so and in no way an object as man, which is defined as thinking subject, as a cogito, by Western philosophy, could reach by his thought, conscience or object or his reason or his science. Because life is already coming to us before any thought or idea, it is preliminary, it is the very possibility of thought, like all our powers.

Life is so unthinkable, invisible force that only we can live, that is to say, in our experience emotions, the imperious desire to live which never separates from itself, which appears in each living in suffering and joy, anguish, or love, which is becoming alive in each and everyone. Life is self-giving, self-revelation, she gives herself in you by giving you simultaneously to yourself.

And that means life is live, give, love, hugging, and experience itself be better and so we live, live forever in our heart alive. "The e heart is the most appropriate definition of man," writes Michael Henry.

What is the relationship between life, art and culture?

Art and culture are manifestations of life in which the living who seek to live more intensely than others - artists - seeking to make us feel at we forgetful of life, lost in the exteriority of the world, and feel what they feel deep within themselves.

For works of art, the true culture, life reminds us, it brings us together and makes itself known more to the human heart in joy and love restarted reunion.


The We is emotional the sole and authentic "living together", as desperate in social science statistics and policies, it is the place of real culture capable of connecting any human community. But that we live we have lost the key and forget what life is and what must be the art and culture.


Day We Lost the living, Rimbaud 's remembered in the beginning of A Season in Hell : "Formerly, if I remember correctly, life was a feast where all hearts opened, where all wines flowed. "

you remember from oblivion? 2008

This We the living Michel Henry speaks: "The human community, is a slick emotional ground on which everyone drinks the same water from this source and this well he is himself. "It is this relationship alive and unseen works of art rediscovered in Wasily Kandinsky Concerning the Spiritual in Art when it comes to painting the vibration of the soul, resonances inside ... His friend Paul Klee said about him trying to make visible the invisible.

Discovery simple and understood by these artists is that without our living relationship to works of art there is no work. A work may exist in the exteriority of the world, it can be entered in the history of art or not, represent the world or not, be made of colors, shapes, smoke, gold or waste, it may still be in a museum or on the street, worth millions or nothing without a living person who saw the work is dead.

It n'yad'œuvre by and experience emotional experienced from the work. The work is work that we, in our inner invisible, where it wakes up the powers of experiencing life.

Beethoven condensed it all into a short form nowhere else: "Beginning at the heart it must go to the heart."
is in this sense that art is spiritual and it is as stated by Michel Henry, Wasily Kandinsky and others, the resurrection of life.

text for the exhibition in the heart of the subject in 2006 and works from 2008 and 2010 by Robert Empain