La Fête des fous (2019) Digital Arts by Gaëlle Peignot

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The feast of the fools, or feast of the innocents, was a very widespread masquerade in the Middle Ages and until the middle of the 16th century. Loud and exuberant brawlers, the ecclesiastics themselves were the first actors in the feast, disguising themselves in the craziest ways, and the consecrated places were the theaters. Celebrated during the[...]
The feast of the fools, or feast of the innocents, was a very widespread masquerade in the Middle Ages and until the middle of the 16th century. Loud and exuberant brawlers, the ecclesiastics themselves were the first actors in the feast, disguising themselves in the craziest ways, and the consecrated places were the theaters. Celebrated during the Saturnalia, this moment of abstraction from any order or hierarchy saw processions where the servants were the equals of the masters, where the spiritual guides were madmen, the festivities ending with the election of a bishop of the madmen , or sometimes of a pope of fools. Here, I sought to highlight the jubilation of a population momentarily released from its obligations, as much as its own madness at its peak.

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