Claudie Titty Dimbeng
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Ivresse is a series of paintings that Dimbeng began during the Covid 19 epidemic confinement. She was inspired by Baudelaire's poem "Get drunk", sent by a friend in the early days of her forties.
This series is an invitation to poetic intoxication, spiritual well-being, a hymn to nature and to life. She tries to answer the question of the weight of time, when everyday life becomes tragic.
IVRESSE is a call to the principle of elevation and exaltation, an invitation to sublimation and surpassing oneself; a way to let go of the burden of confinement, anguish, fear, this morbid daily count, in order to avoid sinking in the face of the epidemic, disease, death of loved ones ...
The question of time is essential here: as in many Bantu languages, Kièlè in Douala, or Lobi in Lingala, which mean both yesterday and tomorrow, reveal to us the passage of time and fix us in the present. Yesterday no longer exists, tomorrow does not exist yet. You have to manage the present time.