Ken Feingold: Eros and Thanatos Falling/Flying.
Exhibition at Mejan Labs
2nd November – 10th December 2006
Opening on November 2nd 5-8 pm.
Mejan Labs, Akademigränd 3, Stockholm
www.mejanlabs.se
For Mejan Labs Ken Feingold will premiere a new work in his Eros and
Thanatos series, titled Eros and Thanatos Falling/Flying. Here he
suspends two ventriloquist puppets, one in each room of Mejan Labs, from
the ceiling so they appear to fly or fall. This ambivalence, a balance
between two opposites, is something you can find in several of
Feingold's pieces. The mythical characters of Eros and Thanatos were
used by Freud in his formulation of drive theory to metaphorically
represent the fundamental biological energies of, on the one hand, Eros:
life, creativity, growth, and increase in tension, and on the other,
Thanatos: that of the movement towards homeostasis (elimination of all
tensions), dissolution, negation, and death. Psychoanalysts who follow
Freud’s ideas have characterized these in many different ways, but
fundamentally agree that we are constantly driven between stimulation
and action by a balance of the forces of these energies, neither one
ever found in completely pure state.
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