Trahison des images ou épiphanie de l’inaperçu? L’imaginaire chez Sylvie Germain
The Betrayal of Images or the Epiphany of the Unnoticed ? Sylvie Germain’s Imaginary

Summary/Abstract: Is it possible to divorce the pictorial image from the verbal image? Should we see them as signs, symbols or myths? Sylvie Germain’s work brings to the fore such relationships by various means; on the one hand, she sees images (both poetic and pictorial) as signs reworked from a very personal view of subjectivity and, on the other, she analyzes those images from the point of view of intersubjective archetypes, symbols and myths. The pictorial images which this author often resorts to are employed to both make up for possible lacks in the use of the verbal sign and to enrich those same signs. However, what if the originality of Chateauroux’s author laid actually in her ability to underline the impossibility of separating both media, the verbal and the pictorial? Can we say that images betray language or do they, instead, allow a metaphorical leap into the occult?

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