Invisible Monsters or Little Girl and the Phallus

translation by Izabela Potapowics)"La peur est au centre de man (Euvre"Alone.Yet, never truly alone.On a white background.From a world that lightens her dim gaze.That fills her entire body.And those who are loved around her. Never alone.A teddy bear, a guard dog to caress.A swarm of friends, sisters, mothers, affectionate dolls facing the infinite.Facing death.In front of which she comes undone, stands beside herself, in order to scream injustice.She plays and outwits reality with the help of an accomplice, a soul mate.Intuitive, behind a shameless mask, insolence is her only weapon.It suffocates, anesthetizing her heightened sensibility, her fear.Alone in her multilayered shell, she struggles.She faces the world.She manipulates negative forces.She makes a way for herself by creating her own space where she lets her imagination wander between dogs and wolves, between mockery and tenderness.She invents rules for her own game; she outlines her roles: the malicious seductress, the defiant girl, the fearful woman, the devoted mother.These are perhaps the parameters of a fictional space, but they apply to the realities found in the universe in which little girls grow up.Little girls like those drawn by women artists Kim Dawn, Eve K. Tremblay and Elisabeth Eudes-Pascal.Nostalgia, mourning, seduction, combat, and struggle all seem to vibrate in the heart of the works.Yet these themes are lightened by the spontaneity of the drawing gesture or by the models' bewildered expressions, giving them a certain freshness, a charming candor.Indeed, the three artists express a certain youthful energy, a kind of spontaneity, an exuberance that is generally found in children's drawings, or in portraits that are made of them.The blunt, unswerving skilled line of Kim Dawn's drawings unmistakably portrays the little girls' right to speech.This right to speak compels us to listen carefully.We are not dealing with childish remonstrations, but with demands which take us off guard, revealing much about the little girls' state of mind and the condition of being a little girl.Spontaneous and rapid gestures, these drawings fall on paper like a heavy fist, filled with hate and anger."I deserve respect" and "I want to forget" -statements that need no comment, while hinting at a deeper drama.What does she wish to forget?And at the same time, why does she ask for respect?The equation seems easy to solve, especially at a time when the media constantly remind us of human nature's dark side, of certain human beings who up until now seemed socially marginal, but who, according to statistics, constitute an

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