HANDBOOK OF THE SPONTANEOUS OTHER

In Handbook of the Spontaneous Other, Aikaterini Gegisian brings together a whole range of photographs from Western Europe and the United States from the 1970s 1960 and 1970. Composed of a series of 64 collages, the book places in their context, in a playful way, of images from popular culture including Gegisian was inspired by - pornographic magazines, tourist catalogues and National Geographic - in order to circumvent the way in which the body, nature and the pleasure have been represented in the fantasies of Western capitalism. Divided in nine chapters that follow a metaphysical narrative of colors and sensations, the book seeks, ultimately, to identify a “spontaneous other”, a notion of self and pleasure that exists beyond the limits of culture popular and its dominant modes of representation.