Sometimes I do stop to ask myself why I like Slava Mogutin quite so much (with acknowledgements to his site)

And in the context of Didi-Huberman's ghastly Soulèvements exhibition, on which more to follow, I can see why. Other things apart, D-H has an astonishing aptitude for desexualisng and degendering.

Three pictures for 2017, or optimism is an auto-immune malady of the soul.