I hate the beige walls and the reverence and the neatness and the abstract ideas I don’t understand and the stupidity I feel towards all of the paintings stacked next to one another, decontextualised and really these are paintings about nothing—what arethese paintings of? It seems whimsical and twee and I hate that all of these white men could go to the Middle East or to countries in Africa, take from the cultures and steal the light and bring it back to the West and then somehow reinvent what was already there through the filter of the white imagination so that it is now Othered and distanced
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