The alter ego didn't end with Duchamp; she also appeared in a series of aphorisms by the French Surrealist poet Robert Desnos who expanded upon the persona, describing her as a forgotten aristocrat and rightful queen of France. (artspace.com)
In the installation We're Getting Old, So Let's Talk Like This, the artist has taken aphorisms from wooden novelty plaques that communicate unshakeable optimism, humor or moral values. (steveturner.la)
I will never demand an art that provides answers, but I will plead for one that sets the right questions to the right people, and as I stood in an empty gallery and failed to connect with Thomas Locher's A Hundred Thousand Billion Societies (2017)-- a stack of boxes emblazoned with aphorisms about belonging — throngs of locals ghosted past, perspectives unchanged. (frieze.com)