Fatal Attraction
Piotr Uklański Selects from the Met Collection
This installation of works from the permanent collection was organized by the New York–based artist Piotr Uklański (born Poland, 1968), whose photographs are on view in the current exhibition Fatal Attraction: Piotr Uklański Photographs. His chosen theme is Eros and Thanatos—the intertwined concepts of life force and death wish that Sigmund Freud interpreted as warring within each individual and within Western civilization as a whole. Although long since discredited as psychological truth, Eros and Thanatos is a hardy cultural construct—from the quintessentially French description of climax as “la petite morte” to Richard Wagner’s “Liebestod” from Tristan und Isolde to Woody Allen’s Love and Death.
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