The mysterious Sphinx, half-woman, half-lion, arouses desire. Fetish is where the secret joins the strange, and their encounter becomes ambivalent – the sphinx we nourish secretly at our core. Karl Marx had a theory of fetish as a socioeconomic hieroglyphic; Michel Leiris diagnosed the West with an ethnopsychiatric condition of Eurocentric fetishism; and Jean Baudrillard … Continue reading Photo reportage from the exhibition ‘ANATOMY OF THE FETISH’ by Goda Palekaitė and Marija Puipaitė at Galerija VARTAI