Author: Hoy, Estelle"saké blue" gathers Estelle Hoy's critical essays, art reviews, and poetic fiction – primarily on women artists. Hoy spares nothing and no one, exposing cultural clichés and urgent political issues through fast-paced acerbity. She advocates the work of women artists, mocks stereotypes, questions myths, and champions desire, sadness, and boredom. Beautiful, lyrical, and cut-throat, her writing echoes to the reader like l’esprit d’escalier – we think of the perfect reply just a little too late.Written in dialogue with the work of Martine Syms, Marlene Dumas, Hervé Guibert, or Camille Henrot, these texts combine the subjective and analytic, addressing power relations and the force of affect. Overpriced cheesecakes are the starting point for an essay on art writing; shoplifting in Berlin opens to a reflection on the economies of activist practices; fiction allows for discussion of the legacy of institutional critique, queer mélanges or quiet melancholy. For Hoy, the story of art becomes more nuanced in light of lyrics by Arthur Russell, the posthumous sorrow of Sylvia Plath or a poem by Yvonne Rainer. Estelle Hoy is a writer and art critic based in Berlin. Her critically acclaimed book "Pisti, 80 Rue de Belleville" was published in 2020.ISBN 9782492650147. After 8 Books. pb. 216 pages. 1 colour, 20 b/w ills. 18.4 x 12.1 cm.available
