RIVIERE DÉCOLLETAGE

 Riviere Décolletage

 

What exactly is an “exotic dancer”?  What are “fine arts”?  How does one “make do”?

 

As a seventeen-year-old high school dropout, Riviere Décolletage was diagnosed with LSDD, a rare and fortuitous neurological dysfunction. Lergereto’s Synthetic Developmental Disorder (LSDD) is a form of dyslexia that uniquely effects the comprehension of paired words. Dr. Dimitri Dunnhuong whose groundbreaking research in dyscalculia earned him a MacArthur Fellowship, has written extensively on LSDD. In a 1987 paper[1] published in the French journal Documents neurologiques, Dunnhuong argued that poets as varied as Gertrude Stein, William Blake, and Homer all suffered from LSDD in one form or another. According to Professor Dunnhuong, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus could only be fully comprehended if read with a full focus on the recurrence of paired words[2].    

 

Riviere Décolletage may or may not be familiar with Dr. Dunnhuong’s research, but that seems entirely beside the point. Décolletage’s “word paintings” are nonetheless vivid (and beautiful) illuminations on the inadvertent lyric nature of human speech.

 

A larger version of Désir pérenne, which appeared together with Reduire seduire, and Bake Off as a triptych in the 1998 Tokyo Biennial, has earned Riviere Décolletage a permanent niche in the post-modern canon of Neo-Expressionist Semiology.

 

 

 

 

 

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[1] Les poètes de l'arrière-plan. Documents neurologiques, Éditions gatopardo, 1987

[2] According to Professor Dunnhuong, there is no translation of the Tractatus that reflects the critical importance of the recurring paired words.