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Texts On Post-Truth, violence, anger
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Dorian Sari. Post-Truth, Manor Prize 2021, Kunstmuseum Basel/ Gegenwart, Switzerland.
To the people who bring the sounds of the waves
to the people who have never been on the beach.
To the people who bring the sounds of the waves
to the people who have never been on the beach.
209 pages, Paperback
Published March 1, 2021
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November 25, 2022
I'm writing this review in French, because I have met Dorian and we spoke in French.
C'est un magnifique ouvrage sur la violence et la colère que le monde peut engendrer. Dorian est un artiste remarquable. J'aimerais avoir la possibilité d'être capable d'écrire comme lui, mais parfois / souvent, je n'ai pas envie de me rappeler des moments douloureux. Donc j'ai tendance à oublier tout simplement.
D'ailleurs, peut-on m'expliquer pourquoi la photo de couverture du livre n'a pas été mise ?! Je déteste cela.
Bonsoir.
Addendum - 24.11.2022
I really liked his passage about Switzerland (page 48-49); it's so genuine. "The wall of silence and passivity." And the chapter, called "I sell Guns, and I call Myself Neutral" (page 56 to 73) and yes, the first political party in Switzerland is the extreme right one.
Honestly, my least favourite chapter was the one called "The future is genderless" (page 105 to 119) too long, too repetitive and maybe too excluding. The weakest chapter of the book. No enough people can relate to the problem.
It's weird that he used to call the women wearing all black scarf included "cockroach", because in my family we called them raven (aka les corbeaux/karga).
All he says about Erdogan and the AKP's party is true. They have killed the country forever, "Today nobody belongs to that country except Erdogan" (page 134).
Nice quotes:
- Page 36: "I have a hyperactive and depressive nature."
- Page 41: "But by experience, it has been proven that my escapes were only illusions."
- Page 50: "Thought is subversive, revolutionary, destructive, and fearful. Thought tramples against privilege, rigid tradition, and all pleasure habits. Thought is anarchic and illegal, never gives a fuck about authority. Thought considers those scared humans who pretend to be the ruler of the universe, like little black-holes surrounded with endless silence. Thought is gigantic, fast, and free. It is the light of the world and the biggest step one takes. I told them that we are the mind of the future. What we think, what we believe now, will be alive in the future."
- Page 69: "The art world that we want to romantically believe it may not really exist. There are humorless problems in the art world, as much as in any other field."
- Page 81: "When someone comes to an exhibition with an expectation or preconditioned mindset, it ends most of the time with deception."
- Page 89: "Shaping to love and manipulating to care."
- Page 91: "I was bombarded enough by a certain type of image, so as to fantasize life more than what I could invent by myself; with my own imagination."
- Page 92: "At that age, most movies were having a happy ending. They were telling me that if I dreamed and believed, then my dreams could come true."
- Page 93: "The absence of basic reality calls into question what the reality is and if it even exists."
- Page 94: "But we shouldn't forget that USA will always put the USA first."
- Page 100: "Patriarchy's main central body is made of domination and then violence. And money is the measurement for almost everything in this selfishness."
- Page 125: "with my polyamorous heartbreaks."
ps: I love the piece of art that comes with the book, nicely done.
C'est un magnifique ouvrage sur la violence et la colère que le monde peut engendrer. Dorian est un artiste remarquable. J'aimerais avoir la possibilité d'être capable d'écrire comme lui, mais parfois / souvent, je n'ai pas envie de me rappeler des moments douloureux. Donc j'ai tendance à oublier tout simplement.
D'ailleurs, peut-on m'expliquer pourquoi la photo de couverture du livre n'a pas été mise ?! Je déteste cela.
Bonsoir.
Addendum - 24.11.2022
I really liked his passage about Switzerland (page 48-49); it's so genuine. "The wall of silence and passivity." And the chapter, called "I sell Guns, and I call Myself Neutral" (page 56 to 73) and yes, the first political party in Switzerland is the extreme right one.
Honestly, my least favourite chapter was the one called "The future is genderless" (page 105 to 119) too long, too repetitive and maybe too excluding. The weakest chapter of the book. No enough people can relate to the problem.
It's weird that he used to call the women wearing all black scarf included "cockroach", because in my family we called them raven (aka les corbeaux/karga).
All he says about Erdogan and the AKP's party is true. They have killed the country forever, "Today nobody belongs to that country except Erdogan" (page 134).
Nice quotes:
- Page 36: "I have a hyperactive and depressive nature."
- Page 41: "But by experience, it has been proven that my escapes were only illusions."
- Page 50: "Thought is subversive, revolutionary, destructive, and fearful. Thought tramples against privilege, rigid tradition, and all pleasure habits. Thought is anarchic and illegal, never gives a fuck about authority. Thought considers those scared humans who pretend to be the ruler of the universe, like little black-holes surrounded with endless silence. Thought is gigantic, fast, and free. It is the light of the world and the biggest step one takes. I told them that we are the mind of the future. What we think, what we believe now, will be alive in the future."
- Page 69: "The art world that we want to romantically believe it may not really exist. There are humorless problems in the art world, as much as in any other field."
- Page 81: "When someone comes to an exhibition with an expectation or preconditioned mindset, it ends most of the time with deception."
- Page 89: "Shaping to love and manipulating to care."
- Page 91: "I was bombarded enough by a certain type of image, so as to fantasize life more than what I could invent by myself; with my own imagination."
- Page 92: "At that age, most movies were having a happy ending. They were telling me that if I dreamed and believed, then my dreams could come true."
- Page 93: "The absence of basic reality calls into question what the reality is and if it even exists."
- Page 94: "But we shouldn't forget that USA will always put the USA first."
- Page 100: "Patriarchy's main central body is made of domination and then violence. And money is the measurement for almost everything in this selfishness."
- Page 125: "with my polyamorous heartbreaks."
ps: I love the piece of art that comes with the book, nicely done.
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