With “ferocity at home”, the Pernod Ricard Foundation gives the mother to see – Liberation

“I have no good relations with my mother and, as our lives advance, it seems that it gets worse. However, We are both prisoners of a narrow intimate, passionate and alienating tunnel. Similarly, ” Vivian Gornick is 52 years old when she writes Fierce attachment. Intimate and magnificent book which scrutinizes and scratches the plague of the relations of a girl to her mother.

The title of the exhibition Ferocity at homeat the Pernod Ricard Foundation in Paris. directly evokes the book of the American journalist – without the link being always obvious between the works presented and the theme developed by the exhibition commissioner Oiane Durand: the ambiguity of a suffocating maternal love, sometimes to the toxicity. The attempts at emancipation. the feelings in return of the child who has become great to his mother “ferocity home”, pernod ricard foundation (whether biological or reinvented maternal figure, whatever), guilt and ingratitude mixed.

In the video My mother’s nose (2021). who is listened to on a Daronne sofa, Harilay Rabenjamina questions his geniror, who had severely criticized his daughter for having recourse to cosmetic surgery “To have a white nose”… And who finally followed him up and made his own again. Alleman