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Glean 1, Autumn 2023

Text by Phillip Van den Bossche

Carsten Höller

Phillip Van den Bossche dives into the oeuvre of the intrepidly experimental Belgian-German artist Carsten Höller.

‘But the project was beyond issues of “identity” and “society” and “institutions”. Mine was a quest for a new spirit.’

— Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, 2018

There is something about the 1990s: call it a brief moment of doubt. It’s inside those years, stored in a capsule. It occasionally flips open again, not like a UFO, but with headphones on ‘and with those eyes that you get | when your circumstance is movie-size’. There you are, flying round (…)

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