Miscellaneous facts

We can easily imagine Anouk Ricard sitting down every morning at the local bistro, to strip the Latest News from Alsace or La Provence, and to track down, through the regional daily press, the stupid crime and the trivial drama. Her fantasy then sets to work. She derails the anecdote, sends it to wander along the back roads of reality, to meet a conclusion, lamentable and crazy in its very logic. These short stories rediscover the anarchist humor of the three-line stories of Félix Fénéon or of diversions by Gabriel de Lautrec, also based on news items. The artist's menagerie may seem childish. Beware of appearances. The The blue duck, the yellow horse or the myopic dog reflect the image of humanity petty, ridiculous and not in the best of shape. As clumsy as they are out of step, the News characters hilariously prove that crime doesn't pay not, at least not if it is committed by imbeciles.