une matière à passage(s)

10:29 Aug 22, 2015 

I used Polyglot's suggestion of "passageway" in my actual target translation. Will it be posted? Not sure what to do about closing the question while it is not there.

06:37 Aug 19, 2015 

I have used your suggestion but cannot choose it as yet. Will you be posting it?

10:17 Aug 17, 2015 

My first reaction too would be to omit the articles.

10:14 Aug 17, 2015 

Thank you. I shall be using "passageway" if you want to post it.

09:46 Aug 17, 2015 

Vulva, mouth or pore, a hole is an opening, a passageway. It prompts the urge to look and touch. Physically and metaphysically, it awakens one or several senses. Lucio Fontana knew this perfectly well. Poncet, for his part, exquisitely but firmly, opens our eyes, makes us look right into the holes, see beneath the skin, through the mirror.

09:45 Aug 17, 2015 

also I would omit the articles: whether vulva, mouth or pore...

09:44 Aug 17, 2015 

post passageway-or passage I think that sums it up:)

09:23 Aug 17, 2015 

Re-clarifies our view of holes?

09:19 Aug 17, 2015 

"yeux en face des trous", as in the expression "(ne pas) avoir les yeux en face des trous" - to be (not) seeing straight.
I also suggest you say "a hole" rather than "the hole"

09:13 Aug 17, 2015 

Whether it is a vulva, a mouth or a pore, the hole is (made of transitional matter?). It arouses our desire to see and to touch it. Both physically and metaphysically it awakens the senses, affecting our sensory organs. Lucio Fontana knew this intuitively. Poncet, with his delightful confidence places holes before our very eyes, forcing us to pass through our bodies and on to the other side of the looking glass....

09:11 Aug 17, 2015 

perhaps ?
And what on earth are you going to do with "yeux en face des trous" ?!

09:11 Aug 17, 2015 

In light of the whole paragraph, "passage" is rather in the sense of going through to see and touch what is behind- "matter to be pierced through" perhaps..

09:06 Aug 17, 2015 

Well this is an idea:
the hole is the substance of transition(s).

Love Fontana!

09:02 Aug 17, 2015 

Vulve, bouche ou pore, le trou est une matière à passage(s). Il donne envie – de voir, de toucher. Physique et métaphysique, il éveille le sens, les sens. Lucio Fontana le savait par cœur. Poncet, lui, avec une fermeté exquise, nous met les yeux parfaitement en face des trous, nous impose de voir à travers la peau, de l’autre côté du miroir. Impossible d’échapper à ces œilletons du désir, à ces fentes obsédantes, où se faufilent des curiosités et des spéculations par milliers (Lunatique, 1979).