The Freud Museum presents ‘Les paris sont ouverts’, curated by Caroline May, a group exhibition which brings together eight international artists, some of whom are showing for the first time in the UK. All the artists explore sexuality and desire, inclusion and exclusion, repression and trauma in a way that challenges normative thinking and proposes alternative modes of thinking about the self and ‘the other’. The title can be literally translated as ‘the bets are open’, while a looser translation suggests that ‘everything is possible, anything can happen’. The exhibition addresses the idea of openness and possibility in gender and sexuality.
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In this oblique way, she began to sense what went to the makings of Miss Brodie who had elected herself to grace in so particular a way and with more exotic suicidal enchantment than if she had simply taken to drink like other spinsters who couldn’t stand it any more. The Prime of Miss Jean [...]
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Something I wrote last year and which, sadly, did not get anywhere. Lacan at the Scene Henry Bond Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 2009 256 pp. $24.95/£18.95 ISBN-10: 0-262-01342-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01342-0 Detectives and analysts see more than we do, moving between transference and interpretation with a perplexing ease, and picking up key details about [...]
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With thanks to the lovely Beatriz Olabarrieta for sending me these astonishing images. So mysterious, so evocative! Well, I guess I would say that given my practice but I have spent a long while trying to figure out what goes on in the picture plain, only to be sucked in by the photograph. It is [...]
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