Judith / Vania

With Judith, a biblical episode that inspired many painters, we find the central themes of his work: heroism and barbarism, servitude and domination, desire and death...

Here, the game of seduction is transformed into a chaotic struggle of the senses and reason. Through this verbal joust between Judith and Holofernes, where sensuality surfaces, he raises the question of the ownership of bodies.

Freely inspired by Chekhov's work, the characters in Vania here free themselves from a creator who suffocates them. They demand the right to exercise their will, thus escaping the paralysis to which Chekhov has condemned them.

The fatality of their human destiny, present in the original work, shatters here, as their hitherto inhibited impulses of love and death gush forth.