La petite mort, French for "the little death", is a reference for the refractory period following sexual orgasm. The term has generally been interpreted to describe the post-orgasmic fainting spells or unconsciousness some lovers experience. More widely, it can refer to the spiritual release that comes with orgasm, or a short period of melancholy or transcendence, as a result of the expenditure of the "life force".
The show is about the certain flamboyance, daring and fetishisation of glitter or shiny material as a mean of life. Idea of shining (the self and the support), and dazzle. In a sense, if you do put some sparkles in your life then incrementally your life is sparkling... It's about the idea of carnival, as a celebration of life, of being alive. But also the notions of covering, hiding something or hidden, of make-up. Fetishism/ hybridization. It's also about appearances used as a mechanism to maybe cope with the idea of death.
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The idea for the show is also based on Roland Barthes who spoke of la petite mort as the chief objective of reading literature: he metaphorically used the concept to describe the feeling one should get when experiencing any great literature. By extension, the show is about feeling ans sensuality when experiencing art (also refers to Susan Sontag idea of sensuality in art, of a direct relationship against analytical interpretation).