Aida on Nostr: "The Fall of the Author (2021), is a self-portrait as a destroyed monument. On a ...
"The Fall of the Author (2021), is a self-portrait as a destroyed monument. On a white neoclassical pedestal a figure, painted black, is bent at the shins; the rest of the body gestures to the ground as if contorted by a tornado. The metaphorical wind of the steppe is more powerful than any of the West’s memorialization strategies, be it monuments to great men or notions of individual authorship."
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