It is not often that a cuddly toy is taken hostage and abused.
For a portrait for the daily newspaper “Liberation”, the French artist poses with his favorite cuddly toy, which his mentor, the artist Claude Lévêque, had taken away in 1981.
Faulon was twelve at the time and had been sexually abused by Lévêque for two years.
Four decades later, Faulon filed charges against the world star of the art scene against the rape of minors.
It is a carousel of names that turns faster and faster; the names of stars, gray eminences, politicians, artists, television presenters, writers, actors, film producers are falling. Not a week in which no further allegations of abuse, rape or incest are heard by the French public.