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Un Chant d?amour from 1950 was the only film ever made by the iconoclastic writer Jean Genêt. It depicts prisoners in the solitude of their cells devising unique and unusual erotic acts. Everything is a sexual substitute, every object open to eroticization: a belt, a foot, a sock, a pistol, a cigarette, a straw. The prison guard watches the prisoners, then molests them, all the while dreaming of an elsewhere where they can abandon themselves to the desires of his fantasy.

Laura Lamiel?s piece entitled Les Yeux de W [The Eyes of W], recently shown at the CRAC in Sète, includes, amid various personal objects, a still frame from Chant d?amour. This clue steers the reading of the installation towards the discovery of intimate, political and erotic allusions.

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