Art then becomes a safety valve for the expression of individual and collective neuroses originating in the inability of coping with the environment. Its products serve as a retarded correction of perception braked by the system of conventions and stereotypes that stabilize society. They create a slightly updated system which, eventually assimilated by history, will require a new system and so on without end. Art objects serve as points of identification alienated from the consumer, requiring more sympathy than empathy. . Luis Camnitzer
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Art is not a safety valve for the expression of individual and collective neuroses originating in the inability of coping with the environment. If art were so, it would disappear when society became sane. Art is merely a retarded correction of perception braked by the system of conventions and stereotypes that stabilize society. It creates a slightly updated system which, eventually assimilated by history, will require a new system and so on without end. Art objects serve as points of identification alienated from the consumer, requiring more sympathy than empathy.

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