Manufacture nationale, mais que fabrique l'Etat ? (National manufacture, but what does the State make?)
2005
Isabelle Rooryck . chief curator of Musées du Lot . Limoux Regional Department of Cultural Affairs (DRAC)
Ministry of Culture
“Anne Cindric becomes a surgeon, even an anatomist:she dissects into “lessons” of the kind adopted by Rembrandt’s Tulp or a Géricault.Under the knife, sometimes under the cleaver, she autopsies the State, its constituted bodies, its limbs down to their smallest appendages, its genetic maps, its DNA, its prints, its layers of masks and its bleeding seals, its pumps, its viscera and organs under dialysis, its social biles, its emunctories, even – cry scandal – its excretions.
“The art could become embroiled in innumerable fantasies, but here – beneath flamboyant garments – we enter into the suggestive brutality, deliberately decadent with its hint of mannerism, of a subversive expression that reveals unspeakable wounds and capital interrogations… as well as executions.Anne Cindric, this little scrap of a woman, delicate as a flake of porcelaine, apparently frail, gentle, is in fact packed with explosives.”