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Rose McLaren is an artist in London.



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Talk Into My Bullet Hole

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July 2015

Rose McLaren

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July 2015

‘Someday people are going to read about you in a story or a poem. Will you describe yourself for those people?’ ‘Oh, I don’t...

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May 2014

Art Does Not Know a Beyond: On Karl Ove Knausgaard

Rose McLaren

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May 2014

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle has an oddly medieval form: a cycle, composed of six auto-biographical books about the...

Now, how to say it? One out of two, or two in one, or what? The Gamal sisters were identical To say, as people do, ‘They were like two peas in a pod’, the same age, the same height, and wearing, by choice, the same hairdo Moreover, they both must have weighed around one hundred and thirty pounds—let’s move into the present—: that is, from a certain distance: which one of them is which? One is the other, and the other sometimes denies it, though always secretly, of course, because this business of having a double can be vexatious, almost almost leech-like, but it’s their own fault, because with each passing year they try ever harder to emulate each other Their tics, gestures, and facial expressions, all the same, as if mirror images Do they ever grow weary of one another? Possibly, though if they did, their souls would be void The thing is: their sole importance has only ever been this similitude—a double meaning that just might be single   On the other hand: there are differences in the details Constitución Gamal has a sizable beauty mark just above her right shoulder blade, whereas the other doesn’t: her name is Gloria and she is the more subdued of the two, the observer, so This physical trait is easy to conceal: they wear clothes that cover that particular zone For their daily attire: in the morning, whoever gets to it first decides for both, chooses the colour and style, and the other simply consents There’s no discussion, no sudden whims   As for their personalities: one is discreet and the other a chatterbox, but this, too, can be managed: neither indulges excessively, as a rule And their names? They swap them—why shouldn’t they! Their daily activities: they are seamstresses, and such perfectionists Paltry, dullards What began as an innocuous pastime became the profession that took hold   Many years ago they set up shop here: in Ocampo: where they live without so much as a twinge of longing, confident that their daily and

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August 2014

Rose McLaren

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August 2014

Rose McLaren is an artist in London.

The Prosaic Sublime of Béla Tarr

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Issue No. 6

Rose McLaren

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Issue No. 6

I have to recognise it’s cosmical; the shit is cosmical. It’s not just social, it’s not just ontological, it’s really huge. And that’s why we...
Stalker, Writer or Professor? Geoff Dyer's Zona and Genre

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February 2012

Rose McLaren

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February 2012

‘So what kind of a writer am I, reduced to writing a summary of a film?’ wonders Geoff Dyer half way through Zona. Such...

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Issue No. 9

Leaving Theories Behind

Enrique Vila-Matas

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Issue No. 9

I. I went to Lyon because an organisation called Villa Fondebrider invited me to give a talk on the relationship...

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Issue No. 4

The Land Art of Julie Brook

Robert Assaye

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Issue No. 4

Julie Brook works with the land. Over the past twenty years she has lived and worked in a succession...

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Issue No. 19

Two Poems

Sophie Robinson

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Issue No. 19

sweet sweet agency   the candy here is hard & filled & there is nothing i love more than...

 

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