COLETTE SAINT YVES
D’origine française, née Hortense Lagrange le 24 juillet 1987. Elle étudie le Cinéma à l’université de Lille, France.
Since her childhood, Colette is interested in moving and immobile images. She uses differents medias to produce her work : video, photography and collage. She is a huge images collector : found photos, postcards, old illustrated books, screencaps. They are the relics that shape her world, She feels reassured surrounded by them.
"The production of nervous force is directly connected with the diet of an individual, and its refining depends on the very purity of this diet, allied to appropriate breathing exercises.
The diet most calculated to act effectively on the nervous force is that which contains the least quantity of animal matter; therefore the Pythagorean diet, in this connection, is the most suitable.
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The main object was to avoid introducing into the organism what Descartes called 'animal spirits'. Thus, all animals that had to serve for the nourishment of the priests were slaughtered according to special rites, they were not murdered, as is the case nowadays".
