Loving and thinking, therefore being
Descartes writes: “I am thinking, therefore I am being”. Thereby Descartes takes a certain logic for granted: The logic of coming from one premise to a conclusion.
Abir Karmakar appropriates for his purposes this logic. Karmakar writes: I love therefore I am. Therefore we may use this logic in approaching his tenting images. But there is a difference: The major difference between image and text. Kamarkar adopts the logic of speech. This is the logic of reasoning with linguistic concepts. This logic he sets in a relation with images, which seem to challenge linguistic concepts in a special, disturbing, twofold manner.
Nils Röller New Delhi/Sanskriti Kendra