Thea Djordjadze:

What art is about is the construction of the materials, so the materials then become aestheticised or pleasurable. The pleasure of those materials has to do with the intensification of the body. So this impulse to art is to not make oneself seductive but to made oneself intense, and in the process to circulate some of that eros that would otherwise go into sexuality.

[Elizabeth Grosz interview with Julie Copeland on Radio National 2005]

Artwork by Thea Djordjadze: