Custody of the Eyes - Diamela Eltit documenta Side views of industry (medicine

Side views of industry (medicine

Batia Suter’s work intuitively situates found images in new contexts to provoke surprising reactions and significative possibilities

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seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance

Custody of the Eyes - Diamela Eltit documenta Side views of industry (medicineAlienation and dire frustration mount as an unnamed womana motherstruggles to survive in the face of state repression, neighborhood surveillance, extreme weather, and familial control. Told through one side of an epistolary exchange, the novels letters are bookended by dense ramblings by the mothers son, who struggles to speak and write and spends most of his days in lockdown rearranging his vessels, hysterically laughing, drooling, writhing,