Look Up: El Hadji Sy

13th September 2021The Library of the FutureClémentine Deliss, d(OCUMENTA) (13), documenta 14, El Hadji Sy, Issa Samb, Koyo Kouoh, Laboratoire AGIT'ART, Philippe Pirotte, Postcommodity, Youssou N'DourMinus Plato

Your favorite revenant is back! Did you miss me? I hope you weren’t expecting me to narrate every day – that would be so 2016-2017! Believe it or not, I have better things to do than ramble on about every book on these shelves I call home in my endless afterlife. Sometimes I want to […]

“I Owe You Everything, Still Remains”: The British Museum Caryatid Speaks

26th August 2019UncategorizedAuguste Rodin, caryatids, Caryatids and the Patriarchy, Chief Robert Joseph, Clémentine Deliss, Frédéric Keck, I Owe You Everything, I Owe You Everything Still Remains, Occupy Museums, South as a State of Mind, The British Museum, The Parliament of BodiesMinus Plato

It is 1881. She somehow finds herself in London, visiting the British Museum. She is looking at the caryatid from the Erechtheion. As she wonders how much she is missing her sisters (she too is missing her sisters), in walks renowned French sculptor Auguste Rodin, accompanied by a group of gentlemen from the museum. Rodin […]