Madagascar Live! Exeter

The outline seems indelible: Hannah James

La Jalousie is a short novel written by Alain Robbe Grillet in 1957, from which the title of this exhibition is borrowed.

The outline seems indelible is taken from a passage in the centerof the book which describes the squashing and killing of a centipede. This act becomes a repeated motif within a fragmented and anachronistic narrative, which is re-performed over and over. Robbe Grillet favours an objective form of description over a personal narrative and the imprint that this creature leaves on the wall, after its death, is...