The title of the exhibition, “En attendant Cythère” (“Waiting for Cytherea”), refers to Watteau’s “L’Embarquement pour Cythère” (“Embarkation for Cytherea”), which recounts an amorous pilgrimage: couples embark for or return from Cytherea, the Greek island considered to be the birthplace of Venus, goddess of love.
While Watteau shows the laughing, libertine complicity between the protagonists, Tricaud presents men and women mostly alone, though playing with the idea of two (mirror poses, complementarities between clothed and unclothed)… When together, they struggle (both to bind and resist each other), or share a moment of respite, looking in the same direction: towards Cytherea.