Les Petits Chevaux de Tarquinia

FIRST EDITION. One of 45 numbered copies on pure wove paper, the only large paper edition.

"The Little Horses of Tarquinia" is the story of a vacation spent in Italy, by the sea. At the end of a road, at the foot of a mountain, in front of a landing stage, a small group of French people, two couples, one of whom has a child, meet up with Italian friends, a grocery store, a hotel-restaurant, a pétanque court, a dance area, a river estuary, the sea, a landscape threatened by the seasonal wildfire. Everything is torpor. The scorching summer heat, the vacation time which the vacationers don't quite know what to do with, the state of relations between them and within the couples. The torpor and boredom of a vacation from which they had hoped for everything are two facets of one and the same thing: what to do with oneself and with freedom? What is it to be without the love of another?" (marguerite-duras.com)