Esprit de bière

Dark or light, beer exalts and numbs. It serves out big talk or big hangovers. It unifies and separates. It sums up gestures, desires and failures. It has a memory. Beer, we frequent it and absorb it. In us it is transformed and it transforms us in turn. It engenders minuscule utopias, lasting one night. In a certain manner, it also sums up the strange relationship we have to things, to the world : we swallow it without really knowing what it is and what it is composed of. It is at the same time a clear and a confusing substance. Essay in liquid archeology blending outsider pedagogics and the search for self, Beer leads its investigation of this golden beverage as a commissioner would of a crime. Beer is thus first analysed as a substance, as matter (real, chemical, physical...). Then, it cycle becomes the object of particular attention. Cycles that adress man in his desires for bonds and exchanges. Cycles who remind us how - even beer - may be a matters of (self) contemplation.