A Rose Has Teeth in The Mouth of The Beast, curated by Andrey Parshiko, is an enigmatic, imaginatively catchy, and, therefore, totally absurd, or let’s say, a non-sense quotation from Part II of Wittgenstein’s «Philosophical Investigations». This phrase comes from the synonymic “pain in someone else’s body”, pointing out that, in fact, “ one has no notion in advance where to look for teeth in a rose”. Besides the eternal question mark, raised much further in relativist doctrine, “what seems logical and what — absurd due to the human linguistic apparatus”, the poetics of these phrases and metaphors go deeper into the dark and decadent context in the cultural scene of fin de siècle and first decades of 20th century.
