"L'Evidence éternelle [de Magrite] consists of five separate framed canvases each depicting a close-up of a part of the same woman; her hand, her breasts, her stomach and sex, her knees, her feet. Together they offer visible evidence of her body and of her physical proximity. Yet how much is this evidence worth? Any one of the parts can be removed or they can be arranged in a different order. The work proposes that what appears to exist - the rex extensa - may be seen as a series of discontinuous movable parts. Behind the parts and thought their interstices we imagine an impossible freedom." JOHN BERGER (John Berger, About Looking, Bloomsbury, London, 2009)
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