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Lot Essay
UNSATISFIED DESIRE
AND THE UNTRUSTWORTHY
LANGUAGE OF ART
I. Some people die of their own passion.
Some by the passion of others.
And some simply die of illness or another natural cause.
I am against it.
II. Art is not a mirror.
Art is a translation of that which you do not know,
but of which you want to convince others
or rather, that which no-one knows,
but by which everyone can be seduced
to believe that although 'It' is bad, 'it' is good;
it's good not to have what you desire most.
III. I'll continue to cry for the doomed:
innocent brushstrokes, painterly trances,
the exotic other, love-fictions...
To lipread and name the silence;
to use the dream that torture will stop
when the prisoner talks.
M. D.
(Marlene Dumas quoted in: Marlene Dumas, exh. cat., Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn 1993, p. 48).
AND THE UNTRUSTWORTHY
LANGUAGE OF ART
I. Some people die of their own passion.
Some by the passion of others.
And some simply die of illness or another natural cause.
I am against it.
II. Art is not a mirror.
Art is a translation of that which you do not know,
but of which you want to convince others
or rather, that which no-one knows,
but by which everyone can be seduced
to believe that although 'It' is bad, 'it' is good;
it's good not to have what you desire most.
III. I'll continue to cry for the doomed:
innocent brushstrokes, painterly trances,
the exotic other, love-fictions...
To lipread and name the silence;
to use the dream that torture will stop
when the prisoner talks.
M. D.
(Marlene Dumas quoted in: Marlene Dumas, exh. cat., Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn 1993, p. 48).