aes+f - mediterraneum - le bastart

AES+F, choreographies of salvation in fine porcelain

Contrary to the desire for possession, the caress is a voluptuous gesture that «nothing catches», nothing retains. Emmanuel Levinas took the poetic image of the caress as a paradigm of the right distance between the self and the other, that distance that embraces alterity without annulling it. In the hand-painted porcelain statuettes by AES+F the caresses abound, but here the promise of future announced by Levinas is completely distorted, with stylized advertising choreographies With kitsch […]