Elaine Reichek
The Albertine Workout, Appendix 34, 2016
hand embroidery on linen
22 x 15 inches
55,88 cm x 38,1 cm
55,88 cm x 38,1 cm
Transcription: appendix 34 on getting rid of your slave It occurs to me that a novelist has the option to disenfranchise, disempower or delete his slave grammatically by taking away...
Transcription:
appendix 34 on getting rid of your slave
It occurs to me that a novelist
has the option to disenfranchise,
disempower or delete his slave
grammatically by taking away the
part of speech in which she acts
as a subject connected to a predicate.
So Marcel’s ultimate reference to
Albertine on the last page of the
novel is a sentence without a main verb:
Profound Albertine, whom I
saw sleeping and who was
dead.
— Anne Carson
The Albertine Workout
Anne Carson, The Albertine Workout (New York: New Directions Poetry Pamphlet; #13, 2014), 35.
appendix 34 on getting rid of your slave
It occurs to me that a novelist
has the option to disenfranchise,
disempower or delete his slave
grammatically by taking away the
part of speech in which she acts
as a subject connected to a predicate.
So Marcel’s ultimate reference to
Albertine on the last page of the
novel is a sentence without a main verb:
Profound Albertine, whom I
saw sleeping and who was
dead.
— Anne Carson
The Albertine Workout
Anne Carson, The Albertine Workout (New York: New Directions Poetry Pamphlet; #13, 2014), 35.
Exhibitions
Elaine Reichek: Between the Needle and the Book, January 18 – February 29, 2020. McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas.
Elaine Reichek: Sight Unseen, May 17 - June 23, 2019. Marinaro, New York, NY.
Literature
Vitamin T: Threads & Textiles in Contemporary Art, Phaidon, 2019, p. 236-239.
Dorn, Erin. Between the Needle and the Book. Houston, TX: McClain Gallery. 2020