Sigmund Freud

 From the series “Bad Flowers”, taken in Brooklyn during the spring of 2020.

Roe Ethridge, from the series “Bad Flowers”, taken in Brooklyn during the spring of 2020

By Jamieson Webster

 Soshiro Matsubara,  A Tale of Romance , 2020 (detail), carpet, glazed ceramics, artificial hair, fabric, wood, light sphere, Carpet: 350 × 200 cm, Sculpture ca. 20 × 130 × 90 cm, Lamp ø 28

A Tale of Romance, 2020 (detail), carpet, glazed ceramics, artificial hair, fabric, wood, light sphere, Carpet: 350 × 200 cm, Sculpture ca. 20 × 130 × 90 cm, Lamp ø 28 cm

Japanese-born, Vienna-based artist, Soshiro Matsubara is digging deep into the sordid past and affairs of Viennese love, loss, and revenge, at a recent show in the City of Music where heads were taken off, and Freud was keeping close watch. 

What does Freud’s Dora have to do with the Kardashians? Chiara Bottici and Jamieson Webster on an old soap opera – and a new one.