The one who killed the father, coupled with the mother, the inexorably tragic destiny of Oedipus was an inexhaustible source of creation. The figure of the boy who, wanting to escape destiny at all costs, kisses it full on the lips, is used by artists to offer a new look at their own aesthetic research. Fifteen contemporary authors have combined their voices and their plural artistic expressions to imagine Oedipus, The Abyss of the Soul.

The exhibition combines painting, sculpture, installation and even photography, works which disarticulate the figure of Sophocles' king. This is overflowing with exploited themes; the mother, the son, desire, incest, murder, the quest for oneself, unconsciousness, fault and atonement. Appearing in Homeric poems, sung in Greek tragedies, painted by Ingres and others, pointed out by Freud, rewritten by Gide and Cocteau, the story of Oedipus has traveled the centuries but has never lost its force of his dilemma.

The ironic but noticeably tragic spiral of the mythological hero is observed with a curious and modern eye. A myth which never ceases to tint Western society with the red of its blood, as in this work where the torn eyes of the incestuous person leapt from the eyeball.