Bury Your Masters

In the name of our mother

As the key I swallowed traveled deep into my spine

it unraveled the threads that wove my being

Through the long path it touched my curse -

Skip, skip, skip 

Sweat turns to oceans

Where lost spirits swim

Ohhh father, one word and our bones are yours

One word and the horizon becomes the thread -

- that stitches us all back together. 

We embraced our fate,

Feeding the earth with the silken flesh

Of our mortal souls.

Emanci (t) ation (n) (p)

In the name of our sons

My black nipples hang to the ground

in search of roots to escape

Freedom abandoned us for rage 

That shiver comes with shame 

I dig deep, yearning to touch your core,

Yet the undercurrent of self-preservation

Drifts me apart.

Consumed where all could see

I wear my shame like a second skin.

Just silence where a soul once lived.

My courage wears the veil of a femme de joie

Nowhere to hide

I barter parts of myself for hope,

That crumble like ash in the wind.

Come undone by a genocide of stars.

Oh fist of dignity, enter my meat... 

Choose my heart once again

Lace (t) ation (r) (n)

In the name of the holy spirit

The devil sucks me like ice

drip by drip, cut by cut

We become one

Peri-neum

My convictions disappear in my reflection

Ohhh white s(k)ins

Don't forget the weight of your sins

As the skeletons of your past become your altar

On your knees, you will become slaves

Serving the empty black hole that once held all your certainties

4 times you will die before finding peace

4 times you will scream before finding a voice

4 times you will birth before finding life

4 times you will disappear before finding a gaze

Bury Your Masters combine une réflexion personnelle et historique avec la rupture et la renaissance, à travers un jeu de médias et de matériaux variés, imaginant un monde à la fois sacré et instable, où les vestiges du passé persistent. Manuel Mathieu a exploité le pouvoir de l'abstraction pour créer une installation qui passe de deux à trois dimensions, se déployant comme une cérémonie immersive de confrontation aux vérités. À travers ses explorations matérielles, Mathieu a mis en lumière la lutte pour la dignité et l'autoconservation dans un monde où une expérience collective et équitable de la réalité semble impossible.

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