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A Wind of Revolution Blows, the Storm is on the Horizon
Exhibition views at Chelsea Space, Londres, 2008
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| The title comes from Alexis de Tocqueville, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies,shortly before the outbreak of revolution across Europe in 1848. Karl Marx, in The Eighteenth Brumaire, responding to the events and effects of 1848, writes: 'Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past'. The works here, despite their gentle air of refinement, reflect relays between nature, humanity, violence, and sexuality.S. K. |
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Mes bêtes sauvages, 2008
Found stuffed animals.
Exhibition views, Chelsea Space, London. Photo : DR
My savage beasts are a squirrel, turned aristocrat with her little red ribbon around her neck, poised in flight from a Jacobin stoat, identified as a revolutionary by his Phrygian cap, symbol of liberty.
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We have seen nothing yet but roses, 2008
Digital prints on Arches mouldmade paper
Chelsea Space, Londres. Photo : DR
For some time now I have been collecting French postcards, under the theme of women and roses. They are usually from the period between the end of the nineteenth century and the 1950s. I scan the cards, and then quite carefully remove everything but the woman (her face, hair, flesh) and the roses she holds or is arranging. I cut her from her ground. The image is then reproduced as the same size as the original card, now floating, bereft of context. The title comes from a speech by the Jacobin, Georges Danton. S.K.
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