Something less harmful

© Emo Verkerk



"It seems more easy to pretend that this is a portrait of an object, than to explain that this object is meant to be a portret. But it is. It is a portrait of Paul Delvaux. The portrait is about my secret wish to look at naked women and to desire them. This concept of voyeurism finds its complementary opposite in a painting of Delvaux. (..) The reflectors reflect the secretiveness of voyeurism. The chance to be discovered is part of the excitement. The box, that I got from a Belgian friend, has been used to contain fruit, and symbolizes the wish itself. Later it happened that Delvaux became blind"

(Emo Verkerk)

Ce qui ne va pas

© Emo Verkerk

Ce qui ne va pas
c'est de comparer
l'inconscient avec de l'eau
L'inconscient, c'est du vin,
le vin de la vérité
On nage dans le vin,
cela envire
Il ne faut pas
trop boire la tasse

(Jacques-Alain Miller, Énigme et interprétation, 1996)