Following numerous editions of the Biennial centered around current and societal themes, the 2012 edition strikes a different note: love. Entitled Only you, only me, this year’s biennial will examine this most complex of feelings.
Deep down, love is about movement, an impulse that pushes us towards the other in the hope of reciprocation. Narcissus sought his reflection the way we try to touch the horizon. Love never reaches its goal. Frustration, absence, separation, solitude: we never get to love’s destination. Only movement matters. The lover is perpetually unsatisfied.
Love embraces heart and bodies alike. In the game of seduction, the look plays a central character. Sensual pleasure and the urge to see have never been very far apart. The eye mobilizes the erotic imagination. The image is as loved as the lover, tenderly, sensually, warmly.
If love is blind, what else is there besides the image to help it find its way?
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