Valentine's Day: "France, country of the love of Love". Catherine van Offelen depicts love in France in the time of MeToo.
For her, love is a madness without law or reason, which must be saved from censure. In the digital age, the ambivalence of desire is buried under a litany of statistics on sexual violence, inequalities, differences and injustices. We want to contractualize desire, standardize eroticism, administer sex. The bohemian child is king. The Word was made flesh, he became number.