Slow reading on art: works, artists and the act of looking.
8 articles
Existence & Spirituality ·
The feeling that “there is someone else inside me” is not an illness but the mind’s shelter. We explore dissociation as an art of reconciliation through Phil Stutz and Magritte.
Existence & Spirituality ·
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life.” We read repetition in relationships, and the effort to repair, through Jung and Deleuze.
Existence & Spirituality ·
“The heaviest burden a person can carry is themselves.” From Jung to Goya, we look through art at the moments of confrontation we run from, and at our shadow.
Essays & Criticism ·
Art does not console; it confronts. In the light of Albert Camus’s philosophy of the absurd, we look at the absurdity of existence in the works of Louise Bourgeois, Francis Alÿs and Bruce Nauman.
Art & Seeing ·
From the Dadaists who cried “Everything is absurd!” to Yves Klein’s void… We explore the breaking point at which art stopped producing meaning and made the crisis of meaning visible.
Art & Seeing ·
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” From Camus to Kahlo, we explore the aesthetics of being reborn from the places where we broke.
Existence & Spirituality ·
“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” We explore Camus’s absurd hero and the aesthetics of persistence through examples from art history, from Titian to Stuck.
Anatomy of an Artwork ·
In Remedios Varo’s Sympathy we explore the anatomy of cat, woman and cosmic bonds. Sympathy or empathy? A surrealist search for tenderness.
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