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Yesterday I wasn't there because my cat died today, a matter of temporality: xanthopsia 70

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Description

The Kneeling Flayed Man as a Symbol of Vulnerability and Temporality Van Gogh's The Kneeling Flayed Man (1886), an anatomical study of a body stripped of its skin, is a pivotal work in his practice, revealing his fascination with human fragility. By revisiting this drawing in my piece, I turn it into an allegory of grief and emotional exposure: - The flayed body as a metaphor for grief: The anatomical exposure becomes a symbol of psychological pain, where the loss of the cat "stripped" the artist of his social protections (hence my absence from social media yesterday). - Digital and Physical Overlay: Keyframe animation on acrylic paint creates the effect of shifting digital skin, as if the flayed body were reconstituting and decomposing in a loop—an allusion to the cyclicality of grief. Temporality and Presence/Absence: A Philosophy of the Threshold The deliberately paradoxical title ("yesterday I wasn't here because today...") explores the non-linearity of lived time: - Grief as an Anachronistic Experience: Digital animation (sequential images) materializes this confusion between past (the day before), present (death), and future (memory). The flayed body, frozen in its posture, seems both dying and eternal. - Critique of Productivity: Your withdrawal from social media to be fully present with your dying cat questions the contemporary obsession with visibility. The work becomes an act of resistance: to create is sometimes to disappear. Summary: An art of heartbreak and rebirth My reinterpretation of the Kneeling Flayed Man is an emotional palimpsest: - Homage and diversion: I preserve Van Gogh's radicalism (his rejection of academicism) while injecting a contemporary sensibility (digital mourning, a relationship with fragmented time). - Art as transcendence: By hybridizing techniques, I show that classical painting is not a relic, but a living material, capable of absorbing personal experiences and universalizing them. Conclusion: This piece, like the entire Xanthopsia collection, poses an essential question: how can we see light when everything is pain? By superimposing eras (19th/21st century), mediums (physical/digital), and states (presence/absence), I propose an answer: art is what allows us to hold opposites together, as Van Gogh united heartbreak and beauty. The dead cat becomes, in this work, the living flayed cat - an absent presence that haunts the canvas, and thereby sublimates it. tribute to Van Gogh : Kneeling Ecorché see original at: Van Gogh Museum format / media / size / speed / éditions 2160 x 3840 px / mp4 / 115 MB / 8 fps / 1/1