All history
is the history of struggles —
one single line
La cible is an oil painting. A snowman's head, its eyes and mouth marked by dark holes, fills the canvas. It was not built for play: it served as a target for javelin-throwing practice.
Sébastien Bonin turns a winter pastime into a training ground, where a figure from childhood becomes the thing one aims at. Between game and effort, the image keeps the ambiguity of rural traditions, in which play and the learning of a gesture are never far apart.