Philippe Decrauzat’s work draws its configurations from a network of interwoven and complementary references.
Philippe Decrauzat’s engagement with the labyrinth, as both a conceptual and formal motif, can be illuminated by the work of André Masson, particularly in the context of his collaboration with Georges Bataille on the founding of Acéphale (1936-1937), for which he produced an emblematic cover. Masson depicts a headless body, arms outstretched, holding a flaming heart in its right hand and a sacrificial dagger in its left.
This torn figure appears to find no release except through the opening of its abdomen, whose coiled entrails form a veritable labyrinth, like a shape in search of resolution. The logo of the journal, which would later inform a series by Philippe Decrauzat, rearticulates this spiral structure, derived from the abdomen of the acephalic figure, thus constituting a new point of reference within a transhistorical discourse on the cartography of the body.
