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Take Me, Make Me Mad
is the artist's favourite text about obsessive desire. The influence of Marguerite Duras
NOTE
Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (1914 – 1996), known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. She was the author of many novels, plays, films, interviews, essays, and works of short fiction, including her best-selling, highly fictionalized autobiographical work
L'Amant
(1984), translated into English as
The Lover,
which describes her youthful affair with a Chinese-Vietnamese man. The novel was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1984.
is evident in both the content and syntax of the writing.
Allow me my weakness. With no recrimination, no meaning, no future, no hope. Take me. Make me mad. Blind me to reason. Allow me to wound myself in this way. Anything not to have lived a small life. And I’ll love you for your evasiveness when we meet again and we’re both full of casual disinterest in one another, maybe feigned, maybe not.
Presented, unmediated, in London's bustling Leicester Square, this particular text offers sudden and unexpected insight into the workings of morbid, haywire desire.
