SHOWINGS

STREETS SEEN

“Lateness is a thing in its own right, not a premonition or obliteration of something else. Lateness is being at the end, fully conscious, full of memory, and also very (even preternaturally) aware of the present…. There is an insistence in late style not on mere ageing, but on an increasing sense of apartness and exile and anachronism….

Late style … has the power to render disenchantment and pleasure without resolving the contradiction between them. What holds them in tension, as equal forces straining in opposite directions is the artist’s mature subjectivity, stripped of hubris and pomposity, unashamed either of its fallibility or of the modest assurance it has gained as a result of age and exile.”

Source: Edward Said, “Thoughts on Late Style,” LRB, vol. 26, no. 15, 05 August 2004.

The Tasting Gallery, Daniel & Daniel, 2023-2024