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After ‘L'Enfance du Christ', Arcabas brings us his last polyptych on the Passion and the Resurrection, and, in so doing, reaches the deepest point of his pictorial meditation on the mystery of the Word made flesh. What he reveals through the explosion of his colours, is nothing less than the combat between Light and darkness that takes place deep within ourselves. His pictorial substance is also our human substance. To accompany the work, Fabrice Hadjadj has written a text, ‘Gabbatha', both a work for the theatre and a mystical game. As one of the characters says, ‘These paintings in front of our eyes are tarot cards laid out/By a clairvoyant that reflect our soul.' Each of us may recognise here, around the Cross, the secret drama of his own life.