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Pressure and Perverse Flights to Familiarity 18.02 - 29.03.2011
La Chaussette, Brussels









Press Release

Pressure and Perverse Flights to Familiarity

Ball fluffing whiskey bar tailoring cum walk-like-an-Egyptian sway in crochet cardigans, the post-recession coping strategies of the comfort driven pseudo leveraged upwardly mobile earners have brought them back to a state of oatmeal throws, eiderdown mattresses and earthenware durable reassurance. Oedipal urges are swept under the carpet in favour of false trench warefare hoarding, childhood memory bricolage and mutual massage or, on the other end of the spectrum, vintage Hermès scarves, Pierre Bergé bias-cuts laced with Villeroy and Boch clinking and Pierre Marcolini hot chocolates.
Good robust design, weekend aways, memories of youth cultures that they aspired to before the boom affluence flabbiness whetted their appetites for smoked cheese, these people have pied pipered themselves towards an inevitable predetermined 'amicable' oblivion of ignorance to belittle anything that does not conform to the huddling ensemble of red wine teeth leering.
Do they even realise the hyper-republicanism that is at the threshold? That the reversal of their former Fleury congratulations flamboyance will invariably lead them towards the lynching of post-'structuralist' aspirational-authentic pseudo red-cum-pink fleshopoidic spongy faced biopolitical profiles that teeter closer and closer to the dark clouds foreboding the endgame nightmare?
Worse still imagine staring for the rest of your life directly into the rose gaze and yellow breathy whisperings of these people who hide behind the backs of their design ash wooden panels fearing that their hard earned creamy familiarity will be stone-dashed away.

Taslima Ahmed