Oedipal Complications

The action involving the mother takes place in a bourgeois interior with a sofa, carpet, a round table and an oval recess with a vase. Blume treats furniture and objects as living creatures that provoke us and enter into an interaction with us. The situations that he stages are pointless and give the impression of traps set to capture meanings. On this occasion, the mother is having fun, infant-style, and her son is trying to match her expressiveness. All this – taking into account the objects and the title – provides ample possibilities for examination. Indubitably, the artist’s private experiences are concealed below the surface.