“But there are no hysterical bodily convulsions, intense gesticulations, or rigid contortions in the famous collage that Dalí made to illustrate the architecture of sexual ecstasy in Minotaure. There are only a series of disembodied heads with open mouths. The epileptic seraglio had become cerebral. The architecture of hysteria is all in the head. With mouth agape and eyes wide shut, Dalí reminds us that architecture is not about the reality of the external world but about the space of fantasy. Rather than an architecture of erecting and “filling in,” Dalí presents an architecture of emptying out and unearthing. It would perhaps be unproductive to search for Daphne’s architecture in the external forms of a building; she is more of an “interior design”—the product of an architectural implosion.”
—from Spyros Papapetros’s On the Animation of the Inorganic: Art, Architecture, and the Extension of Life
