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Le Grand Objet

Le Grand Objet

—[The Sublime Object]—

2012-2014

Large Format Photography | HD Videography | Oil on Canvas with embedded HD Screen | Installation | Performance

 

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le grand objet

 

After Jean Dominique Ingre’s 1814 oil painting, Le Grande Odalisque, 35″ x 64″, commissioned by Napoleon’s sister, Queen Caroline Murat of Naples

Jean_Auguste_Dominique_Ingres,_La_Grande_Odalisque,_1814

 

Ingre’s Odalisque helped establish the genre of Orientalism, where the eroticized Otherness of the subject’s identity parallels its role as the visual opiate of the female nude.

 

Odalisque – [Turkis: Odalık] – A slave girl, concubine, attendant or chambermaid to a concubine of an Ottoman sultan; an object possessed by a male figure of power.

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“Man is nothing without the objects that express his being… but the object to which a subject essentially and necessarily relates himself is nothing but the subject’s own objective being.”

—Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity -1841

“Object is, in fact, a question-begging word. It implies a subject.”

—Samuel Alexander, Time, Space, and Deity – 1921

 ” ‘Object‘ is a pseudo-concept. To say “X is an Object” is to say nothing… Objects can only be mentioned in connexion with some definite property.”

—Bertrand Russell’s Introduction to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus -1922

“In fact, almost everything that humans express in natural language concerns Objects and their relationships.”

—Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach – 1994

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