IDA EKBLAD
A Woman Under the Influence
“The low wall that encloses a field or an orchard cannot prevent one’s entering it: it forbids one to enter.”
Saint Genet, Jean Paul Sartre (1963)
We are sorrounded by utensils which have been manufactured by and for any man. The industrial products that make up the urban landscape are the social will bottled and canned; they speak to us of our integration in society; men address us through the silence of these products; they are injunctions, recommendations, sometimes questionings or explainations; a new tool is the reverse of a new gesture. The gesture is described in a leaflet of instructions that we are given with the tool; when we perform it for the first time, we are engaging in a ceremony: the just man who uses a new corkscrew or the latest type of can opener plunges into the fine heart of society, perceives, through the object, the manufacturer, the merchant, the jurist, who advise, suggest, command delightfully. It is out of love of man that man buy gadgets, for the pleasure of hearing the seremonizing voice of the specialist ring out in the solitude of their apartments, of their lives; tools veil from us our forlornness.
Tools have nothing to command or forbid the disintegrated, vagabond element, the wandering individual who is Ida Ekblad.
DEAR SOCIETY
YOU´VE HAD TOO MUCH INFLUENCE ON MY LIFE
GOODBYE
--Galleri Annen Etage
The annex at Kunstakademiet
St. Olavsgt. 32, Oslo
http://gallriannenetage.blogspot.com
