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Soshiro Matsubara’s exhibition ‘Sleeves of Desire’ explores the nuances between different forms of desire and their relation to the ‘Other’ as an entity outside the personal realm, separated through time and space. The artist translates those phantasies into an atmospheric spatial composition, subject to the changing daylight, that stages his works alongside found objects, antiques or reappropriated papers and drawings, moving from the inner to the outer, from the romantic couple to narcissistic self-reflection.
The title refers both to the sleeve of desire and to its cover—‘sleeve’ in the sense of a record sleeve: the outer appearance of capitalism’s melody; a desirable surface made for sale; a visual of consumption that also carries a deeper, unresolved emotional charge. While Matsubara addresses not only the affinities between desire, eros, and death, the exhibition is also reflecting on the appropriation of desire by capitalism—its constant stimulation, its obscene...More
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Soshiro Matsubara’s exhibition ‘Sleeves of Desire’ explores the nuances between different forms of desire and their relation to the ‘Other’ as an entity outside the personal realm, separated through time and space. The artist translates those phantasies into an atmospheric spatial composition, subject to the changing daylight, that stages his works alongside found objects, antiques or reappropriated papers and drawings, moving from the inner to the outer, from the romantic couple to narcissistic self-reflection.
The title refers both to the sleeve of desire and to its cover—‘sleeve’ in the sense of a record sleeve: the outer appearance of capitalism’s melody; a desirable surface made for sale; a visual of consumption that also carries a deeper, unresolved emotional charge. While Matsubara addresses not only the affinities between desire, eros, and death, the exhibition is also reflecting on the appropriation of desire by capitalism—its constant stimulation, its obscene...More