Melancholic Consumer
A blue tonal painting of a person's gaze and clenching teeth. With this work I wanted to make an interpretation of the mind experiencing thought or preoccupation. The painting is loosely based on German artist Albrecht Dürer's engraving Melencolia I of 1514. The work's title is a v...
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| Summary: | A blue tonal painting of a person's gaze and clenching teeth. With this work I wanted to make an interpretation of the mind experiencing thought or preoccupation. The painting is loosely based on German artist Albrecht Dürer's engraving Melencolia I of 1514. The work's title is a variation on Luis Pérez-Oramas' poem written for the catalogue for Tarsila do Amaral's 2018 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Further, the title of Melancholic consumer is an adaptation of Pierre Fédida's title of the psychoanalytical writing where the connection of symbolic cannibalism to melancholia is asserted as the individual's inability to cope with the lost object of desire. |
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