Mavado Charon, when the images exceed the limits – Liberation

Every week in « The 400 culs »Agnès Giard, anthropologist attached to the University of Paris Nanterre, specialist in Japan, passes contemporary speeches and sexual practices in a skeptical and distanced analysis, nourished by the latest research in the human and social sciences.

“My drawing technique is pruritus. I improvise a head in the middle of the page, it spontaneously gives a corpse in a morgue where ten characters massacre and fuck. ” During the distant interview, Mavado Charon, 49, is in the garden of a small Maine-et-Loire farm which he retape with his wife. They go there on weekends, accompanied by their daughter, to take care of a vegetable garden and fruit trees. The birds are cheerfully nose around him, in total contrast with the cruel visions that I keep beforehand to ask the (good) questions: masturbation using a canned box with shredded edges, sodomies of putrefied human trunks, body encumped on posts. Does he want to be reassuring?

Mavado Charon, in a soft voice, says that « Real world violence » he is « intolerable » :: « I am of a rather anxious nature, he assures. This may be the reason why brutal things stretch this desire in me. They terrify me, so I draw scenes from Apocalypse