The Mystery of Our Discovery - Based on the eponymous title by Marina de Caro 6fj5z

The image of two souls uniting emerges from the mists of time. Friends, lovers, parents—the motif of the union of two beings fascinates. Since the Paleolithic period, when it appeared only subliminally in an eroticized female figurine, it has inhabited all eras.

Precursors of the demand for an ever-elusive equality, in the couple statues of ancient Egypt, man and woman are treated identically, in dimensions, postures and the reciprocity of tender gestures.

This same civilization has left us the first known trace of intimate love between two men, a double portrait in profile, looking into each other's eyes, accompanied by the legend "Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum lived together and loved each other ionately."

In our era, few artists have never confronted it. Images of embraces and complicity, but also of tension where the space between the protagonists imposes itself like a third presence. Complex in the range of situations and feelings to be translated, this much-revisited motif could tire, seem redundant, even "trivial."

It is the singularity of the artist's gaze that constantly renews it, like an encounter that takes place before our eyes. For all that the image of the couple tells us about humanity that is profound, original and essential in the pure etymological sense, its magic and mystery will never be exhausted.