Enki Bilal et l’anticipation d’une hypersportivité : le football Hors Jeu

Abstract

Enki Bilal’s graphic work captures the reader’s mind by its pessimistic dystopias, which feature characters who are broken by political and technological systems colonizing spirits and bodies. Bilalian and cyberpunk pictures refer to a corporeality endlessly questioned by hypermodernity and embodying hypersportivity. The hypersport moments which punctuate this eclectic artist’s work enable to suggest a vision of tomorrow’s bodies while raising issues about today’s excesses of sport. The future of football is the topic of a full album, in collaboration with Patrick Cauvin. Hors Jeu (1987) constitutes an opportunity to analyse this culture of excess through the lens of players’ identity troubles, hybridation of the body by the machine and physical and symbolic violence, expressed on the pitch and beyond.

Keywords

• cyberpunk
• comics
• dystopia
• technology
• posthuman
• Bilal (Enki)