#chatelet

Bader Sisters from the Parisian Chatelet Theatre

“Philosophy seems finally to have been relieved of a problem it had held very dear - that of the riches of darkness - and whose resolution had been sought in cosmologies without Creation, which always begin with a Chaos of primordial waters, an equivocal mixture of Sky and Earth in a state of ontological putrefaction...a state they could never have escaped had not another God decided to separate them.

These cosmogonies give us one of the keys to understanding the uneasy fascination that emanates from Chaos: the latter installs thought in a space that one hopes will be fruitful, but which is already gnawed at by the virulent opposition of two principles. Chaos is the unresolved equilibrium of two forces, an equilibrium incapable of assuming the coiled, heightened ambiguity of a couple. It presents itself as a precarious totality within which the possibilities it will supposedly deliver are already confronting each other.