“We could spend hours lost in the contemplation of the living dresses of Didier Hagège, so they can finally reveal their special atmosphere made of unexpected breath and familiar perfumes we can feel hidden underneath the images.
Then we feel like going behind the paintings to really touch them and, getting closer inside the art we expect to find mysterious answers to unexpected secrets coming from “over the rainbow”... Looking for the right distance to watch them, we understand that we should walk and move in front of the paintings so we can embrace every detail revealed by different lights and points of view.
From here, we can see a bee or maybe a cicada. From there appears a fish bone, and over there a floating flower seems to be trying to escape. Attracted by their vibrating colours, our eyes finally come back to the shining dresses. This is the world of Didier Hagége, complex and moving geography where spring seems to be spreading from all over (…)”
Azouz Begag Printemps de mousseline, Défilé, catalogue, 2006
