“In the novels of polish writer Witold Gombrowicz, we see how each individual generates his own form through his behaviour, his way of coming across, and the way he addresses others. This form comes about in the borderline area where the individual struggles with the Other, so as to subject him to what he deems to be his ‘being’. So, for Gombrowicz, our ‘form’ is merely a relational property, linking us with those who reify us by the way they see us…When the individual thinks he is casting an objective eye upon himself, he is … comtemplating … the result of perpetual transactions with the subjectivity of others.”
– Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics (1998)
