Description (EN)
Exoticism, here, is not distant.
It is already at hand.

Paul-Armand Gette turns the notion inside out: what is usually framed as “other” appears as repetition, surface, habit.
The exotic dissolves into the everyday.

Image and text operate with restraint.
Nothing spectacular is asserted; instead, attention shifts.

What emerges is a quiet displacement:
the foreign as something constructed, the banal as something charged.

A small book that unsettles a large category.

Kurzbeschreibung (DE)
Das Exotische erscheint hier nicht als Ferne, sondern als Wiederholung.
Gette verschiebt den Blick: Das Fremde wird alltäglich, das Alltägliche fremd.

Details

Paul-Armand Gette, Exotik als Banalität, Berlin, 1980.

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Exoticism as a constructed category within Western visual culture reveals how “the foreign” is produced through framing, repetition, and desire.