'In art as in life, the ‘volte face’, when someone turns around to confront someone else, is a moment of truth and a gesture of recognition that implies the acknowledgment of the other and the assertion of the self.
'Volte Face by Dominique Hecq engages in a philosophical and aesthetic conversation with other arts. It comprises ekphrastic prose poems operating within a surrealist intertextual register. The poems are enmeshed in the discourses of writing at large, painting, music, dance, sculpture and architecture. They are arranged so as to create a rhythm with varying tonalities following the thematic thread of ‘making’.' (Publication summary)
