
“THE THEATRE, that tears Anna’s pictures up, one can expectant name both: theatre of life and theatre of death. It knows only possible stage: the scene of the coincidence of life and death.
Without any curtain, everything occurs before the eyes of the spectator: the game of mortality as that of liveliness.
Finitude and Infinity make pact in scenes of disturbing Evidence (…).
Michel Foucault says he is a “doctor“, a “diagnostician“. His thinking is an operation on the cadaver of the past.
He writes with a scalpel.
Anna does the same as a painter.
She paints with knives and swords“.
MARCUS STEINWEG
“HIRNSCHLAG“ Berlin, 2019
(fragment of the essay on Anna Kolod’s painting)