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“The years have flown”
Montage #6

21 June 2019

“The years have flown and there at the same places as then you sit in the bloom of adulthood bathed in rainbow light gazing before you. She is late.

“They come with fruitcakes.”
Montage #5

18 June 2019

“They come with fruitcakes. Brown-skin nylons. Leatherette shoes. Mammy I have to go to the toilet.

“The shadowless light”
Montage #4

14 June 2019

“The shadowless light. Simply to be gone. Or for affair as now. A single leg appears. Seen from above. You separate the segments and lay them side by side. It is as you half surmised. The upper is the longer …

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“Come running by the lake”
Montage #3

12 June 2019

“Come running by the lake. Eyes mist to the wind feel the fresh rush past. That new day it’s so early in the morning. I step there. Cool and cold and colder.

“Knowing from experience…”
Montage #2

07 June 2019

“Knowing from experience that the height or length you have in common is the sum of equal segments.

“First the body”
Montage #1

06 June 2019

“First the body. No. First the place. No. First both.

Pictorial and Textual Thinking: Montage Exercises with Elsa-Louise Manceaux

04 June 2019

“But by far the greater part of what is said cannot be verified”1Samuel Beckett, Company, London: Calder, 1979 For the following series of juxtapositions, I invited Elsa-Louise Manceaux to pair up some of her drawings with fragments from Samuel Beckett’s …

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Desilluminations
By Elsa-Louise Manceaux

29 May 2019

Why do people see what they see? There must be conventions. There must be expectations. We see nothing otherwise; all would be chaos. Types, codes, categories, concepts. Siri Hustvedt, The Blazing World, p. 58. According to Hito Steyerl, the new …

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Miguel Ventura

28 March 2019

Miguel Ventura’s (b. 1954, San Antonio Texas, U.S., based in Mexico City) collages juxtapose an array of apparently disparate elements: Classic Modern architecture and contemporary iconic Starchitecture, modern and contemporary art, images of celebrities, contemporary artists, politicians, dead bodies, a …

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Crossing the Margins of the Encounter and the Ghosts of Coloniality: Clarisse Hahn’s Mescaline (2017)

20 March 2019

Dismantling the organism has never meant killing yourself, but rather opening the body to connections that presuppose an entire assemblage, circuits, conjunctions levels and thresholds, passages and distributions of intensity, and territories and deterritorializations measured with the craft of a …

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