Eileen Agar British, 1899-1991

Is there a better, more relevant answer to André Breton's groundbreaking essay « Crisis of the Object » than Eileen Agar's Obelisk of Satisfied Desire ? Indeed, in his text, André Breton emphasizes how everyday life objects should be made to refuse and escape the reality principle in favour of the pleasure principle. In order to achieve this Freudian operation, objects have to be made to change their function, to renege on their utilitarian status and open up their latent significations, un-covering another kind of existence and letting it emerge...