Purple Magazine
— Purple 76 Index issue #29 S/S 2018

Saltz jerry

portrait by CELESTE SLOMAN interview by MAURIZIO CATTELAN AND MARTA PAPINI MAURIZIO CATTELAN — How much ego is involved in your posts on Instagram? JERRY SALTZ — There’s ego in my Instagram, for sure. I’m not sure “how much” or exactly what “ego” means in this context. People who say, “This isn’t about my ego” are egoists. The better question might be: “Is there id in your Instagram?” Yes. In the West and in the current art world, pleasure is seen as suspect. The superego wants the id out. Especially any id not preapproved or somehow tamed. It strikes me as impossible that a platform made entirely of pictures wouldn’t be almost all id. This makes Instagram an unexpected vent of pleasure open to anyone, a way of communicating without words — fractured for sure, imprecise always, odd and unformed at best, a temporary thing that repeats but that feels…

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