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The title of this show by Anne Bourse is Dissociation. This word isn’t commonplace, rather it defines a detachment from reality which can be interpreted in many different ways. In psychology, it has repercussions on memory or the perception of reality/normality. As reality/normality is a concept that is questionable in itself, dissociation has produced—in mythology, literature and cinema—many narratives that readily come to mind. Janus, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Psycho’s Norman Bates. This leads us to the double and everything that its apparition produces in reality. As each storyline comes to an end, we are often struck by the fact that the two figures, although diametrically opposed, only exist because of their constant confrontation, which unites them unconditionally. Janus is not only the two-faced god, he is also the god of doors and passageways—of transition, thresholds. A state of shifting from one state to another, a ritual even.
Here, we’re in a very codified space: the…
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The title of this show by Anne Bourse is Dissociation. This word isn’t commonplace, rather it defines a detachment from reality which can be interpreted in many different ways. In psychology, it has repercussions on memory or the perception of reality/normality. As reality/normality is a concept that is questionable in itself, dissociation has produced—in mythology, literature and cinema—many narratives that readily come to mind. Janus, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Psycho’s Norman Bates. This leads us to the double and everything that its apparition produces in reality. As each storyline comes to an end, we are often struck by the fact that the two figures, although diametrically opposed, only exist because of their constant confrontation, which unites them unconditionally. Janus is not only the two-faced god, he is also the god of doors and passageways—of transition, thresholds. A state of shifting from one state to another, a ritual even.
Here, we’re in a very codified space: the…
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