One
The Ones and I
1/Nov' 2024
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If you go to an exhibition opening, you do it better in company. Going alone is clearly reserved for the museum and the daylight. At an opening when you're by yourself, you risk getting stuck in an endless conversation with a stranger you can't escape. And believe me, if you are single you get eaten. One, maximum two people is therefore the perfect size number for company, to protect you, but also to entertain you.
If you bring three or more, you become the unintentional leader. Suddenly, you’re responsible for where the group goes, for explaining things, and so on; for making sure everyone is still engaged. With one or two, this never happens—it’s just mutual observation. Further, most galleries are small, and who wants to exit all the time spacey the group, just so somebody can pass; it's just inconvenient. The catalog therefore should contain around three people. So you have the full flexibility.
My personal catalog spans this exact amount, running from expert to beginner. First there is the witch, of course, because it's graved in stone, that this works out. Let me explain in six words: Veleda and Sparta, Beyonce and Madonna, you understand? It's because we are the same age (and this I can recommend also to you) and we have the same knowledge. When we stand in front of a painting, for sure are the content of a photography.
we get photographed. We are Veleda and Sparta, Beyonce and Madonna.