Dieter Roelstraete: (Jena Revisited) Ten Tentative Tenets
“Indeed, if today we find it increasingly difficult to define or describe both the era and the world we live in, if a sense of unmooring, drift, directionlessness, and general confusion seems to have grabbed a stifling hold of our imagination in all its attempts to map the contemporary life-world, this is probably a side effect of our living in a twenty-first-century “floating world”—one that is not only ruled by the tyranny of superficial entertainments (to which most art now is happy to belong), but one that is also radically—and no longer just hopefully—afloat.”
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Ligurian Sea, Saviore, 1993. Gelatin silver print, 47 x 58 3/4”
