Y SIN EMBARGO magazine #20, Extimacy

"This catalogue features works from the exhibition presented at Vallery from November 2nd to December 8th 2006"--Back cover.

This book explores the relation between modern design and the Belgian State. The ideology of modern design was closely linked to the utopian attempt of improving the everyday material world. Modernists had the universal belief that everyday spaces and objects affected their users in such a way that design practice could be a kind of political and social reform, or even a moral education. Modern design was however not only invested with these social aspirations, but knew also succes in political circles as an exponent for ideological positions, as a tool for political propaganda or as a marker ...

Personal y profano, y en ese difuso límite entre la santidad y lo diabólico que nos resulta tan atractivo como indistinguible, Elena Gallen traza un recorrido inédito de la mujer fatal. El relato histórico y cinematográfico se ha encargado durante siglos de culpabilizarnos por sentir fascinación por un estereotipo en el que de manera instintiva identificamos que se escondía el germen de nuestra libertad. Los evocadores trazos de Sara Herranz acompañan las reflexiones de Gallén e impregnan cada página de simbolismo y misterio.