Thursday, August 30, 2007

Adorno/Nimmalaikaew


Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew, "Drifting" (2006) [inkjet on canvas followed by two layers of oil paint on mosquito netting]


"The exchange relationship that love partially withstood throughout the bourgeois age has completely absorbed it; the last immediacy falls victim to the distance of all the contracting parties from all the others. Love is chilled by the value that the ego places on itself. Loving at all seems to it like loving more, and he who loves more puts himself in the wrong."
-Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia #107 (1951)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I LOVE this piece of art. Your blog is very cool - I will frequent it.

Lawrence of Arabia said...

welcome to the desert. we are in a bit of a slow period at the moment, but i am glad you enjoyed this and i do hope you will return.

best wishes,
LoA.