“After
that' said Gargantua, 'I wiped myself with a kerchief, with a pillow,
with a slipper, with a game-bag, with a basket - but what an
unpleasant arse-wiper that was! - then with a hat. And note that some
hats are smooth, some shaggy, some velvety, some of taffeta, and some
of satin. The best of all are the shaggy ones, for they make a very
good abstersion of the fecal matter. Then I wiped myself with a hen,
a cock, and a chicken, with a calf's skin, a hare, a pigeon, and a
cormorant, with a lawyer's bag, with a penitent's hood, with a coif,
with an otter. But to conclude, I say and maintain that there is no
arse-wiper like a well-downed goose, if you hold her neck between
your legs. You must take my word for it, you really must. You get a
miraculous sensation in your arse-hole, both from the softness of the
down and from the temperate heat of the goose herself; and this is
easily communicated to the bum-gut and the rest of the intestines,
from which it reaches the heart and the brain. Do not imagine that
the felicity of the heroes and demigods in the Elysian Fields arises
from their asphodel, their ambrosia, or their nectar, as those
ancients say. It comes, in my opinion, from their wiping their arses
with the neck of a goose, and that is the opinion of Master Duns
Scotus too.’
‘The
Life of Gargantua & Pantagruel’, Francois Rabelais
God
& Sausages brings together a group of works that try out
satirical adaptations, purposeless rituals, close-up observations,
bodily encounters and micro-jokes. Stemming from personal
perplexities and tracing inner entities, the works feast on a type of
corporeal knowledge or excess, that can be found in introspective
play and that can be revealing.
Lucy
Clout
Magdalena
Drwiega
Rafael
Perez Evans
Maria
Georgoula
Paul
Housley
Stelios
Karamanolis
Kostas
Sahpazis
Ian
Whitfield
curated
by Maria Georgoula
July
6 – July 16
Lekka
23-25 & Perikleous Stoa Zerbini Athens
