Sylvia's Story

Abstract

As a response to Roland Barthes's Fragments d’un discours amoureux, Agnès Thurnauer offers the story of an encounter mediated through a painting. It's a story about a shared love of people in paint, shared but refracted, common gender differentiated in the love of different styles, and in different experiences of the words and commodities that go with them. It's a story of gender, of body-object turned body-subject in a history lifted from the public, and re-mobilised in the turns of conversation. It's the story of a friendship that ignites re-modelled ways of relating and living.