A Void Cannot Be Vacuumed

Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963) - Untitled (One Hundred Spaces), 1995


'It is not certain that everything is uncertain.'

Blaise Pascal

Rehousing The Furniture Of The Id

Marcel Dzama (b. 1974) - Untitled, 2006




Marcel Dzama (b. 1974) - Untitled, 2006




Marcel Dzama (b. 1974) - Untitled, 2006




Marcel Dzama (b. 1974) - Untitled, 2006




Marcel Dzama (b. 1974) - Untitled, 2006

'The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.'

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

How To Make A White Elephant

Maurizio Cattelan (b. 1960) - Not Afraid of Love, 2004

'In the cultural field, authentic provocation serves to indicate an equally authentic and incurable contradiction. The modern rendition of the tragic is precisely the awareness of the irresolubility of the contradiction, and the impossibility of choice. Instead, the reality we are living today is the neutralisation of all conflict transformed by spectacle.'

Giorgio Vertozzi

He Painted Horses, Didn't He?: Part Seven

George Stubbs (1724-1806) - The Duke of Richmond’s First Bull Moose, 1770

He Painted Horses, Didn't He?: Part Six

George Stubbs (1724-1806) - The Lincolnshire Ox, 1790

He Painted Horses, Didn't He?: Part Five

George Stubbs (1724-1806) - Two Indians with a Cheetah and Stag, c. 1765

He Painted Horses, Didn't He?: Part Four

George Stubbs (1724-1806) - A Monkey, 1799

He Painted Horses, Didn't He?: Part Three

George Stubbs (1724-1806) - A Couple of Foxhounds, 1792

He Painted Horses, Didn't He?: Part Two

George Stubbs (1724-1806) - The Nilgai, (1769-71)

He Painted Horses, Didn't He?: Part One

George Stubbs (1724-1806) - Lion Devouring a Horse, 1763

The Prism Of Nostalgia

Thomas Cole - Rainy Season in the Tropics (1866)


'There is nothing dead in nature.'

Seneca

Shooting Candles Of The Night

Joseph Wright of Derby - Firework Display at the Castel Sant' Angelo in Rome (1779)


'The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.'

Gaston Bachelard

Pantomimes Of Sin And Sorrow

Kara Walker (b. 1969) - Excavated from the Black Heart of a Negress, 2002 (detail)


'I didn’t want a completely passive viewer. Art means too much to me. To be able to articulate something visually is really an important thing. I wanted to make work where the viewer wouldn’t walk away; he would either giggle nervously, get pulled into history, into fiction, into something totally demeaning and possibly very beautiful. I wanted to create something that looks like you. It looks like a cartoon character, it’s a shadow, it’s a piece of paper, but it’s out of scale. It refers to your shadow, to some extent to purity, to the mirror.'

Kara Walker

My Green Heaven

'Absinthe is the aphrodisiac of the self. The green fairy who lives in the absinthe wants your soul. But you are safe with me.'

Dracula (Gary Oldman), Dracula, d. Francis Ford Coppola, 1992

Métrotextual

Arts et Métiers (Paris Métro)

'Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.'

Jules Verne

The DIY Dictator

'A revolution is an idea that has found its bayonets.'

Napoleon Bonaparte

Porcelain Pompadours

'One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.'

Madame de Pompadour (Sophia Myles), 'The Girl in the Fireplace', Doctor Who (2006)

The Artificial Moon

Mike & Doug Starn (b. 1961) - Attracted to Light 1, 1998-01




Mike & Doug Starn (b. 1961) - Attracted to Light B, 1998-01

Mike & Doug Starn (b. 1961) - Attracted to Light D, 1998-01

The Garden Of Shadows

Mike & Doug Starn (b. 1961) - Structure of Thought No 2, 2001

Mike & Doug Starn (b. 1961) - Structure of Thought No 3, 2001

Mike & Doug Starn (b. 1961) - Structure of Thought No 4, 2001

Photosapien: Part Five - Thomas Ruff (b. 1958)

Thomas Ruff - Porträt (R. Huber), 1988

Thomas Ruff - Porträt (P. Stadtbaeumer), 1988