“Placated with bread and circus, the humiliated repetitions of catchy culture always needing to be new, this social, political, and economic moment often offers enough seduction to always draw us in, capitalism, that abusive boy- friend, strikes again and it feels like a kiss.”
- Andrew Berardini on the work of Kathryn Andrews
(Source: davidkordanskygallery.com)
DAVID ALTMEJD - The Eye, 2008
wood, mirror
overall size: 129 1/2 x 216 1/2 x 144 1/2 (h x w x d) inches
(328.9 x 549.9 x 367 cm)
(Source: exasperated-viewer-on-air)
We prevent the smell of sweat by applying perfume. We raise our voices to drown opposing arguments. To avoid stuff we make stuff. We are jealous of objects, because their permanence reminds us of our own finitude. Yet we produce things, which aim to be durable, imperishable and are meant to outlast us. Frozen objects, the living dead. The contradiction is: the making of a successor, is, as well as an insurance against time, the very embodiment of our own end. All this in mind, still we award each other tangible objects to capture short-lived triumphs. We take off our shirts, some of us, so that we can stand out. This show is about this fight between shirts and skins, objects and humans.
— Nina Beier
(via prelude-to-silence)
