Tuesday 9 March 2010

Mithologies by Roland Barthes


"One can easily see in a object at once a perfection and an absence of origin, a closure and a brilliance, a transformation of life into matter (matter is much more magical than life), and in a word a silence which belongs to realm of fairy-tales."


Roland Barthes, Mythologies (1957)
Photo by Sandra Saldanha (Louise Bourgeois' sculpture)

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