Sontag Montag, 2009
Catalogue for the exhibition Sontag Montag at Five Years, London, 2009
Edited by Deirdre O’Dwyer, with essays by Briony Fer, Margaret Iversen and Ed Krčma.
Extract from Kafka’s Ear, by Briony Fer: The series of lithographs ‘The Artists Tears Fall Like Rain’ deliberately cuts against the grain of its title. Tears, like the symptoms that beset the hypochondriac, fail to be signs of something and they fail to connect to other symptomatic indications within a cogent system of causality. Symptoms without content, which connect mysteriously but without explication and emptied of affect. But there is a dogged persistence in the task of observing and recording the tears which tend to stop one being able to see clearly at all, and occasionally come with blinding fury. Tears can be light or they can be the proverbial waterworks. The point of collecting the data is not to make those sorts of distinctions – so we can’t know. No pathos, then, despite the inclination of the title, just a determination to continue to make work in lamentable times.
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