Alma Feldhandler: Who鈥檚 the Captain of All These Boys of Death?
鈥淎rchive fever is an irresistible fever to interpret traces, to give them meaning and to prefer one trace over another. Therefore, to prefer to forget is not only to prefer to keep. The archive [鈥 is not a matter of the past, it鈥檚 a matter of the future; a matter of love.鈥� (Jacques Derrida)
Alma Feldhandler鈥檚 paintings harbour feelings that cannot be named without the risk of collapse. They are filled with wounded creatures, tattered existences and anxious forms that seem to be waiting in the corridors of time. The boy on his bed knows a thing or two about that. Above him, puppets perform a frightening dance, but this doesn鈥檛 detract from the strange gentleness emanating from his convalescent body. Who鈥檚 the captain of all these boys of death? Who commands these figures that pass through my body?
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鈥淎rchive fever is an irresistible fever to interpret traces, to give them meaning and to prefer one trace over another. Therefore, to prefer to forget is not only to prefer to keep. The archive [鈥 is not a matter of the past, it鈥檚 a matter of the future; a matter of love.鈥� (Jacques Derrida)
Alma Feldhandler鈥檚 paintings harbour feelings that cannot be named without the risk of collapse. They are filled with wounded creatures, tattered existences and anxious forms that seem to be waiting in the corridors of time. The boy on his bed knows a thing or two about that. Above him, puppets perform a frightening dance, but this doesn鈥檛 detract from the strange gentleness emanating from his convalescent body. Who鈥檚 the captain of all these boys of death? Who commands these figures that pass through my body?
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