Woman, artist, muse and rebel. We weren’t quite done with Camille Claudel...

After "Les Mains de Camille", a puppet play exploring the artist’s childhood, her ties to her family and contemporaries, here we delve into the brilliant sculptress personal correspondence. We have put together a portrait of Camille Claudel based on everything from the provocative libertarian missives of her Parisian youth to the letters never sent from the mental home where she spent the last thirty years of her life, but also on her silences, on what she left unsaid.
 

If ‘correspondence’ denotes an epistolary exchange, what do we call letters sent with no hope of receiving a reply? Among her trials and tribulations over time, we learn to read between the lines, advancing word by word, decrypting  her remarks to art dealers and bailiffs, her love letters and threats, to try to comprehend the moments when she lost and regained her reason.             ​