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“Hiding is a primary function of life, a necessity bound up with its economy, that is to say with the laying-down of reserves. And since interiority so obviously exercises the function of darkness, we should give equal importance to what brings to light and what casts into darkness when we are classifying dreams of interiority.”
Gaston Bachelard
Caves are semi-autonomous, enclosed circuits: within their microclimates, organisms find shelter that could hardly endure elsewhere. Suspended in time, they resist change – a constant temperature reigns there, indifferent to the rhythms of the seasons unfolding on the surface. The descent into a cave’s interior may be understood as an experience of momentary suspension of being-in-the-world.
In her solo exhibition What the Lips of the Shadow Say, Aleksandra Liput engages with the symbolism of the cave, drawing on Gaston Bachelard’s concept of it as a space of withdrawal, refuge, and regeneration – though she does not confine...More
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“Hiding is a primary function of life, a necessity bound up with its economy, that is to say with the laying-down of reserves. And since interiority so obviously exercises the function of darkness, we should give equal importance to what brings to light and what casts into darkness when we are classifying dreams of interiority.”
Gaston Bachelard
Caves are semi-autonomous, enclosed circuits: within their microclimates, organisms find shelter that could hardly endure elsewhere. Suspended in time, they resist change – a constant temperature reigns there, indifferent to the rhythms of the seasons unfolding on the surface. The descent into a cave’s interior may be understood as an experience of momentary suspension of being-in-the-world.
In her solo exhibition What the Lips of the Shadow Say, Aleksandra Liput engages with the symbolism of the cave, drawing on Gaston Bachelard’s concept of it as a space of withdrawal, refuge, and regeneration – though she does not confine...More
