Bosses

by Ghislaine Leung

Ghislaine Leung articulates an art practice, a life, and the necessity to act within a system of limitations. As an artist how can you get out of the hiding position? Her blocks are taken as raw material. To make art is to understand how you are, notice your prejudices and assumptions about value and acknowledge your hand in an unequal world, to recognise how you institute yourself while letting go of the outcome of work. Value is often internalised and mistaken as a positive why does one seek again and again to exploit oneself? Poetic and close up, to the child and to the world, there is proximity without distance. Embodied, deep, with many entry points for the reader, 'Bosses' is Leung’s matrix of motherhood, authorship, self-employment, dependency, love and action.

Genres: Art

104 pages, Paperback

Published November 15, 2023

Reviews

[Idasdudu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tænker på ultraforarbejdet mad. At råvarerne lissom holder op med at være råvarer og bliver til mad der indeholder gift. Eller det bliver lissom forarbejdet så meget at det gode forsvinder. Ghislaine leung skriver at hun forsøger at udnytte sig selv. Være sig egen dårlige chef. Og om det Stockholm syndrom hun oplever. At det føles godt at være hård mod sig selv fordi det øger hendes effektivitet og derfor lever op til de kapitalistiske standarder. Eller ihvertfald kan det føles sådan. Hun skriver at kunstnere bliver ødelagt. Kuratorer og instruktører. Alle bliver ødelagt af at være en / i en maskine.

[Neta Asher Goshen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Crying on the first page
Read through on an Amsterdam-Madrid flight, 20h connection sleepover at Samuel’s