Louis Armand’s The Combinations
Roland Barthes dreamed of Armand’s book when he writes: ‘only allude to writing before going off somewhere else’ where writing becomes a quasi-linguistic function existing already in excess of itself, ‘rehearsing the contemporary tropes of the semioticians’. For Barthes the photographic image can’t be made into an analogue for something else because it is the analogue of the impossible, ‘an image whose detonation is … finally reducible only to the reflexive movement of its own enframing, between two shots, two anachronistic moments. ‘ It represents ‘the perfection and plenitude of its analogy.’ And that analogy risks being mythological and artefactual. ‘an issueless predicament of nothing.’ Armand’s novel is a sequence plenum of this Barthean process.
Richard Marshall reviews Louis Armand‘s The Combinations.
Joseph Nechvatal: Destroyer of Naivet és: Computer Virus 1.0
Galerie Richard (Paris) 74, rue de Turenne 75003 presents Joseph NECHVATAL Destroyer of Naivet és: COMPUTER VIRUS 1.0 September 3 – September 27, 2016 Vernissage Saturday September 3rd from 17-20h Viral attaque : la CaRne (1993) 190×275 cm cm, 78 3/4 x 118 1/8 in, computer-robotic assisted acrylic on canvas