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A society can be described by what it desires. By what it rubs into its skin, swallows, injects, uploads, gambles with, monetizes, disciplines, tracks on its wrist. By the little rituals by which it tries to remain alive.
Agnes Scherer’s exhibition Three Wicked Games departs from an inventory of contemporary obsessions and lets it drift backwards, or sideways, into two so-called tapestry cartoons by Francisco Goya: Blind Man’s Bluff (1789) and The Straw Manikin (1791). Both depict folk games. In the first, a blindfolded figure stands at the center of a circle, trying to strike one of the surrounding players with a spoon. Traditionally, the game could be read as an allegory of love’s blindness: desire that moves without sight. In the second, a straw man is tossed into the air by women, a carnivalesque inversion of gendered power. They belong to a period before the most explicit darkness of his later work, yet they are already troubled.
Scherer recognizes in these games a structure that…
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A society can be described by what it desires. By what it rubs into its skin, swallows, injects, uploads, gambles with, monetizes, disciplines, tracks on its wrist. By the little rituals by which it tries to remain alive.
Agnes Scherer’s exhibition Three Wicked Games departs from an inventory of contemporary obsessions and lets it drift backwards, or sideways, into two so-called tapestry cartoons by Francisco Goya: Blind Man’s Bluff (1789) and The Straw Manikin (1791). Both depict folk games. In the first, a blindfolded figure stands at the center of a circle, trying to strike one of the surrounding players with a spoon. Traditionally, the game could be read as an allegory of love’s blindness: desire that moves without sight. In the second, a straw man is tossed into the air by women, a carnivalesque inversion of gendered power. They belong to a period before the most explicit darkness of his later work, yet they are already troubled.
Scherer recognizes in these games a structure that…
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