Finissage Christian Egger & Susanna Gartmayer

Susanna Gartmayer
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Christian Egger
Display Was A Cat Sneaking Toward An Echo Chamber

“It is one of the inescapable ironies of time that creations of the imagination which are at once of no time and for all time, must nevertheless think and speak and act in terms and in ways which are transient as they themselves are permanent. Their world – the stage on which they play their parts, and in terms of which they think – has become within a few lifetimes strange and obsolete, and must be deciphered before it can be read. For the immortal puts on mortality when great conceptions are clothed in the only garment ever possible – in terms whose import and associations are fixed by the form and pressure of an inexorably passing time. And that is the situation we have to face.”

John Livingstone Lowes, Geoffrey Chaucer (1934), pp.6 f.

“The narcissistic individual, the one who has remained in the expressive stage has eaten up the universe and because he has devoured it, suppressed the objects, becomes himself the object, and thereby not only becomes insufficient unto himself but destroys himself. In the island whose outline is that of his little person this isolated being succumbs before the mirror he has questioned – he has questioned the most mediocre, the most vain, the most superficial of waters.”

René Crevel, »Résumé d’une conference«, in: Le Surréalisme au service de la Révolution, no.III, p. 35-6.