The Terms of Exchange in Three Walks
<p>Liv Schulman had hinted at the possible commission of this text to me in the last months of 2023. On that occasion I contributed a piece of writing for a group exhibition at her gallery in Buenos Aires. In that text, I tried not to explain the works but to find some device to talk about them from the writing itself without referring to them specifically. Returning to it now, I find a paragraph inspired by one of her videos. A puppet tells a group of police officers that the idea of identity is a hindrance. That what is important is the flow of exchanges. The matter of the essence of thinking is located at the limits of the body. It is a folded surface. The puppet gives an example: the best model to imagine it is your own sex. Your sex is a surface, it does not matter if it is concave or convex. What matters is that it is designed to be in contact…</p>
Authors: Federica Baeza
Artists: Liv Schulman
Translators: Ana Andrade
Part of: TextWork
ISSN: 27269949