Exposition / The White Dress – Nathalie Léger
Nathalie Leger’s triptych is a balletic interpretation over the line between fiction and criticism.
“Even more than I ever wanted to write a book, I wanted to have health insurance.”
So a good way to make myself write an essay is to nurture and cultivate a small obsession. Like a Chia Pet.
How could the alpaca consciousness not be affected by all this?
“Things that have happened are tangibly still happening, whether we know it, accept it, or not.”
“I don’t want to let these things just glide by; I think we can learn from our current digital age through art and being in conversation with it.
“A story is whatever I say it is.”
“We love the idea of books being live, sentient beings that have desires, agendas, anger”
I was talking to a friend of mine who was studying theoretical architecture, and she too had gone through this period of being scornful of real buildings.
“If you read a lot of books, and watch a lot of movies, you’re going to absorb some of what it means for you to read and watch them, and that will be expressed in some way in your own work.” An interview with Amina Cain.