"The Melancholy Of Resistance" (the title borrowed from the novel by Laszlo Krasznahorkai)
"I found myself in a room carved out of nothing. It is a rectangle, a window at the far end, yellowing walls. "J-habite ici" (...)
I thought of this destition of hers as some spiritual or aesthethic exercise. Only aesthete can give up everything. I wasn't suprised so much by her poverty as by her grandour. That room was a concept. Thought of what I didn't know.(...)
And she saw them. they came to see her. They sat where I was sitting now. She laughed like a bird in the night, shrill and sharp. So Frederique speaks with the dead. I was the only "living" person who had come to this room.
After that night I couldn't find her again. I don't remember how I got out of her room, nor the corridor, nor the stairs. The stones and walls closed up behind me. "
Fleur Jaeggy "Sweet Days Of Discipline"
Limited edition of 10
42 x 62 cm
£500
