ART text by CLAIRE FONTAINE writing and text-based pieces play a central role in the work of claire fontaine, a collective feminist artist created in paris in 2004 by james thornhill and fulvia carnevale Love is gravity’s enemy. It gives people wings. It also kills women, gays, queers, and trans. (The numbers are just incredible)… …Love is useful. So much of our mental balance, productivity, self-esteem depends on love. And we don’t learn it anywhere: there is no love education. All around us are only patriarchy, racism, capitalism, and other forms of selective empathy and spiritual illiteracy. Above all, there is the wide political spectrum of toxic masculinity, with its infancy without perspective of adulthood, and toddler-like ignorance of relational wisdom and shared pleasure. Toxic masculinity can only terrorize or be terrorized; it cannot be transformed, converted, convinced. The class and racial divides between heterosexual women only make their solitude…