Accept Baby is the second part of an exhibition series at Forde in Geneva taking on the relationship between art and desire, focusing especially on the artist as creative persona. Subjectivity, authenticity, interiority—the themes approached are vast, their preconceptions embedded in the legacy of modern art discourse. The causality that prevailed between artwork as expression of subjectivity, a causality rigidified in the writing of art history, seems to be toyed with in these works. 

«Publics are queer creatures. You cannot point to them, count them, or look them in the eye.» So begins Michael Warner’s introduction to his book Publics and Counterpublics. This article looks closer at the emancipatory potential of publics. It does so on the occasion of the opening of ORAIBI + BECKBOOKS in Geneva.