Last June, the Austrian gallerist Thaddaeus Ropac was stepping off a flight to Madrid when he received a call from an estate agent in London, informing him that Ely House in Mayfair was up for rent.
According to Lacan’s theories on the mirror stage, as children we become aware of our bodies not only as flesh and blood, but as virtual image – the transformative moment we realise we are subjective, ...