For the love of love - Ernest Pignon-Ernest

How to represent what cannot be seen? How to make an image of flesh that aspires to disincarnate? How to capture the traces, the effects, the lights, the shadows, the sighs or the cries of ineffable experiences?
For Ernest Pignon-Ernest, who always made the body the object and the subject of his explorations, the encounter with the great Christian mystics could only arise from a passionate questioning, in which sensuality and spirituality had their full share, and of an artistic challenge.
How to create the very figures of ecstasy by evoking Marie-Madeleine, Hildegarde de Bingen, Angèle de Foligno, Catherine de Siena, Thérèse d'Avila, Marie de l'Incarnation, Louise du Néant and Madame Guyon? How to restore by strokes such transports, such excesses, such sublimated break-ins?