The Beast and the Sovereign MER Paper Kunsthalle Allan Sekula imagined and set

Allan Sekula imagined and set out to realise an artwork

The texts of which the patterns are composed are self-descriptions of the art system that the artist excerpts from and then reinserts into the flow of communication

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notably filled with dazzling light) to capture images which exaggerate the use of light and the after image produced by it

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The Beast and the Sovereign MER Paper Kunsthalle Allan Sekula imagined and setThe Beast and the Sovereign was Jacques Derridas last seminar. It lent its name to the exhibition and accompanying catalogue at the Wrttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart and MACBA, Barcelona (2015). It examines constructs of political sovereignty in the Western intellectual tradition. For Derrida the beast and the sovereign symbolised two opposing figures of the political that are both located outside the law: the beast, who does not know the law,