Le tarot du rameau d'or, installation

If Jimmy Richer chose to create a tarot game, it is undoubtedly because this game shares with his practice a strong attraction to syncretic forces. The origin of the tarot lies in the numerology specific to Jewish Kabbalah, is inspired by the symbolic reversal of the world present in medieval carnivals, but also rests on the metaphorical associations of Greek myths. (…) The title of this work echoes Book VI of the Aeneid when the Trojan hero Aeneas seizes a golden bough to enter the Underworld. But it is also an undisguised reference to the comparative study The Golden Bough by the renowned ethnologist of myth and religion, James George Frazer (1854-1941).

Margaux Bonopera, Jimmy Richer, Possédé·e·s, extract. Read the whole text (only in French).