Artworks : Do You Want Lust or Love?
Artist : Claude Closky
1997
Profile
Who : A scientific girl in need of superstitions
Where : Waiting room
With : Laptop
Doing : Working, yes I’m working.
Laughing type : Double upI don’t have any certitude in life and the more I study, the more I know that I will never have any certitude of any kind. One can say that I’m quite socratist, but actually, I don’t resign fully to this posture. That’s why I can’t resist reading the horoscope when I buy a newspaper. That’s also why I can’t resist reading the very simple answers to my existential questions when I go to the dentist and stumble accross magazines I would never buy myself.
I had work to get done so I decided to do it while waiting. This time, I wouldn’t read the very appealing magazines that I wouldn’t dare to buy myself because “I know better than that”. I would work, I had my laptop. I browsed the DIA foundation website, there is a lot of documentation on it. I stumbled on this web project by Claude Closky and was immediately attracted to it. It looks just like a psychology test. The matter was appealing : “Do you want love or lust?” I’ve never been able to answer that question. So I started this very artistic test. I told myself not to feel guilty, as it was work after all.
After around 20 very tricky questions, the hygienist called my name. I was frustrated because I was totally immersed into that test. I closed my laptop but kept the page where I was and decided that I would continue at home. So I did. After an hour, I wanted desperately to access my results, but the questions were not finished yet. I didn’t want to abandon after all the time I had invested in it. So I kept going, desperately waiting for the moment I would click on an answer. A webpage will give me this illusory, but how relieving, certitude I’m waiting for. But somehow, a question came and it seemed like déjà vu. Same for the next one. I went back to my old certitude.
