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At an otherwise forgettable party in Los Angeles, a queer Korean
American painter spots a woman who instantly controls the room:
gorgeous and distant and utterly white, the centre of everyone's
attention. Haunted into adulthood by her Korean father's
abandonment of his family, as well as the spectre of her beguiling,
abusive white mother, the painter finds herself caught in a perfect
trap. She wants Hanne, or wants to be her, or to sully her, or
destroy her, or consume her, or some confusion of all the above.
Since she's an artist, she will use art to get closer to Hanne,
beginning a series of paintings with her new muse as model. As for
Hanne, what does she want? Her whiteness seems sometimes as cruel
as a new sheet of paper. When the paintings of Hanne become a hit,
resulting in the artist's first sold-out show, she resolves to
bring her new muse with her to Berlin, to continue their work, and
her seduction. But, just when the painter is on the verge of her
long sought-after breakthrough, a petition started by a Black
performance artist begins making the rounds in the art community,
calling for the boycott of major museums and art galleries for
their imperialist and racist practices. Torn between her desire to
support the petition, to be a success, and to possess Hanne, the
painter and her reality become more unstable and disorienting,
unwilling to cut loose any one of her warring ambitions, yet unable
to accommodate them all. Is it any wonder so many artists
self-destruct so spectacularly? Is it perhaps just a bit exciting
to think she could too? Your Love Is Not Good stuffs queer
explosive into the cracks between identity and aspiration, between
desire and art, and revels in the raining debris.
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Intertitles - An anthology at the intersection of writing & visual art (Paperback)
Jess Chandler, Aimee Selby, Hana Noorali & Lynton Talbot; Foreword by Isabel Waidner; Contributions by Fatema Abdoolcarim, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Bebe Ashley, Anna Barham, Paul Becker, Adam Christensen, Sophie Collins, CAConrad, Rory Cook, Jesse Darling, Anais Duplan, Inua Ellams, Olamiju Fajemisin, Caspar Heinemann, Johanna Hedva, Sophie Jung, Sharon Kivland, Tarek Lakhrissi, Ghislaine Leung, Quinn Latimer, Jordan Lord, Dasha Loyko, Charlotte Prodger, Laure Prouvost; Afterword by Vahni Capildeo; Designed by Traven T. Croves; Contributions by …
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