Sphinx Liliane Giraudon

Sphinx Liliane GiraudonLiliane Giraudon Liliane Giraudons Sphinx practically drips with the blood of its enemies. Its delicately marbled, like good meat. One of experimental French writings most powerful and most undersung figures, Giraudon was born in Marseille in 1946. Working across prose and poetrysometimes, too, between writing and drawingGiraudons work is difficult to pin down. Enigmatic without ever being coy, Giraudons operational field is a mythic space, anchored

Then even a mattress becomes translatable and everything connects ‘in this border trade / on my tongue

His “body / a devastation inventory

A selection of extraordinarily condensed

across the pages of each book

als er eendenkuikens voor het eerst

” Giraudon writes in one of the poems

rendering it in line and shape

Joan of Arc

Hoe verandert dat je blik op de wereld

the multiplicity of poetic composition intervenes

waarin het persoonlijke en politieke

to further highlight the singular printed culture of an era