Isa Genzken is not a Dadaist. And yet, her work recalls a passage by Walter Benjamin in “The Author as Producer”:
Childhood is the kingdom of magic. In this world, the child invents new secret languages, speaks with people and creatures visible only to her eyes. She is happy. She spends days, weeks, years inside this world, her own, this warm dream. Here, she is Queen, she is Princess, she is Creature; she is God of her own strange, feral universe.
Isa Genzken’s Strange Contraptions for Transformation
Installation view of the exhibition Isa Genzken: Retrospective. (© 2014 The Museum of Modern Art,…
The Emptiness of Art
René Magritte, “Les Charmes du Paysage” (The delights of landscape) (1929), oil on canvas, 54 x 73…