Des maux pour le dire #[nn]

A brooding atmosphere pervades this 1987 standalone from Vents d'Ouest, with Lax's cover painting a tense nocturnal scene — a silhouetted figure looms in the foreground while two anxious faces are caught in harsh light against the rain-soaked backdrop of a looming apartment block. The title Des maux pour le dire carries a sharp wordplay between suffering and speech, hinting at something urgent and unresolved simmering between these characters. Lax's restrained, shadowy linework gives the whole image a quiet dread that pulls you straight in.