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Cécile Coulon

Invited by the city Clermont-Ferrand, France
"With in soul moors and valleys
curved on houses, bent over children,
the night never comes there is at the ceiling
​a bright sunshine that imagination has kindled."
ENGLISH VERSION

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With these blue and green landscapes in the heart, wich are worlds that we only cross once locked up. With plenty of time To finally visit them - the body screwed to the ground and the eyes fix on the sky.

With in soul moors and valleys curved on houses, bent over children, the night never comes there is at the ceiling a bright sunshine that imagination has kindled.

With in the head piled up questions like sparrows in an overcrowded nest We live behind a window and and what's behind that window  lives in us and we can’t catch it.

With in the chest the certainty that there is a beauty nestled in the heart of the scenery and that it changes at the same time we change  mood, light and age.

​With so many images in memory and so many that will come with two feet, two hands foronly tools and this all seeing eye, and this heart that feels everything « Enclosed» is a body that got back on its feet again.



ORIGINAL TEXT

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Avec dans le coeur ces paysages bleus et verts, qui sont des mondes qu’on ne traverse qu’une fois enfermés. Avec tout le temps disponible Pour enfin les visiter – le corps vissé au sol et les yeux plantés au ciel.

Avec dans l’âme des landes et des vallées courbées sur des maisons, penchées sur des enfants, la nuit ne vient jamais il y a au plafond un grand soleil que l’imagination a allumé.

Avec dans la tête des questions qui s’empilent comme des moineaux dans un nid trop chargé On vit derrière une fenêtre et ce qu’il y a derrière cette fenêtre vit en nous sans que nous puissions l’attraper.

Avec dans la poitrine la certitude qu’il y a une beauté nichée au coeur du paysage et qu’elle change en même temps que nous changeons d’humeur, de lumière et d’âge.

​Avec tant d’images en souvenirs et tant qui vont venir avec deux pieds, deux mains pour seuls outils et cet oeil qui voit tout, et ce coeur qui sent tout « Enfermé » est un corps qu’on a remis debout.


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Cécile Coulon

Born in 1990 in Clermont-Ferrand, Cécile Coulon grew up in a village, at the foot of the Auvergne volcanoes, near Clermont-Ferrand. French novelist and poet, she published her first novel “The Thief of Life”, at the age of sixteen. Driven by reading, running, attachment to the land and landscapes, she published a dozen novels. Regularly rewarded, she received the Apollinaire Prize for her first collection of poems “Brambles” and was the winner of the 2019 Literary Prize of the Journal Le Monde for her novel “A beast in paradise”. During the lockdown, she wrote aphorisms, poems and reflections to the delight of her social media readers.
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Photo: © Marielsa Niels

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Clermont-Ferrand, France
Marielsa Niels - Clermont-Ferrand, France
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This project invites different European cities to bring an artistic perspective on the particular moment of our history – the COVID-19 pandemic - that was lived “at home”.
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