Abstraction: Woman as Object

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thinking about this because of Mai-Thu Perret’s 2008 “The Crystal Frontier” excerpt in Whitechapel’s Abstraction compendium.

“The woman as object fabricated by the capitalist West will be its downfall.”

“Suburban masses sleepwalking through waking life, from one gesture to the next, political prisoners of a grey-tinged nightmare.”

“We are building the hacienda. A pyramid of love. Somewhere in the city armies of cops are massing, manufacturing a confrontation, the banks are closed because they are afraid of the people, they are turning the people against the people. Petty bourgeois daddies are buying guns to protect their rented apartment and semi-detached houses. To protect their right to ride their leased BMWs from their TV screens to the bank and the insurance company. Their houses are sad, prefab shells of what housing could have been. The city is a place where you can’t get lost, it’s an outside without an inside. We will not work to prolong a mechanical civilization and frigid architecture that ultimately lead to boring leisure and endless war.”