Latifa Echakhch

at kaufmann repetto (Frieze Art Fair New York 2012)

Sans Titre (XXIV), 2012

You are slowly getting conscience. Everything is black, empty and void. You are starting to see the glimpses of light. You get the small pieces of puzzle. You have been abducted. You are very frightened. Buy your captors are treating you well. You are building some kind of relationship with them. They don't seem so evil as at first. This is your brain trying to span a net of rationalization on the black gap of reality. This is Stockholm Syndrome.

Joan Mirò

Joan Mirò at Brame and Lorenceau (TEFAF Maastricht 2012)

Composition au visage, 1965

This is human memory. It is like a fishing net. It catches some events(the blue stain or the red stain in lower right corner) or persons(red-green circle or yellow-black one). And some things slip through with water(time) as  the black dots or pink background stains here. The things that memory catches are changing your memories. They create new associations. They bend the memory to accommodate the events and rationalize them.