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Dean Sameshima’s first exhibition in Scotland features a group of photographic works drawn from two series by the artist: zu verschenken (2020–23) and Still Life (2023). ‘Portrait of a City’ coincides with the release of a new 256-page publication of the same name which braids together both projects alongside a commissioned text by Berlin-based writer and programmer Lina Martin-Chan. Beyond tracing the genesis of each project and their place within Sameshima’s broader oeuvre, Martin-Chan posits a reading of the two projects as gifts in the Freudian sense – choosing between bodily pleasure and object love, and how we learn about exchange as infants.
Freud says that: “in reality, wherever archaic modes of thought have predominated or persist – in the ancient civilisations, in myths, fairy tales and superstitions, in unconscious thinking, in dreams and in neuroses – money is brought into the most intimate relationship with dirt.” The gift is a symbolic bundle of opposing forces –…
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Dean Sameshima’s first exhibition in Scotland features a group of photographic works drawn from two series by the artist: zu verschenken (2020–23) and Still Life (2023). ‘Portrait of a City’ coincides with the release of a new 256-page publication of the same name which braids together both projects alongside a commissioned text by Berlin-based writer and programmer Lina Martin-Chan. Beyond tracing the genesis of each project and their place within Sameshima’s broader oeuvre, Martin-Chan posits a reading of the two projects as gifts in the Freudian sense – choosing between bodily pleasure and object love, and how we learn about exchange as infants.
Freud says that: “in reality, wherever archaic modes of thought have predominated or persist – in the ancient civilisations, in myths, fairy tales and superstitions, in unconscious thinking, in dreams and in neuroses – money is brought into the most intimate relationship with dirt.” The gift is a symbolic bundle of opposing forces –…
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