An excerpt from Oval by Elvia Wilk, published by Soft Skull. Elvia Wilk is a writer and editor living in New York. She is the author of the novel Oval (Soft Skull, 2019) and writes for publications including frieze, Artforum, e-flux, Metropolis, Mousse, Flash Art, Art in America and Zeit Online. She is a contributing editor of e-flux journal and a 2020 fellow in the Transformations of the Human program at the Berggruen Institute.

He stood up and palmed her face, so she could rest her cheek in his hand. ‘At least you know I don’t love you only for your money, since you never spend any of it.’

‘We’re trying to prove that it’s possible to live sustainably and not be such a freak about it.’

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Oval

No, I don’t think it’s spatial. It’s about what you waste in your whole life, as a human consumer. The whole point is to cancel us out completely.’ She realized she was clasping her hands earnestly. Without meaning to, she glanced up toward where she knew the camera was, nestled above the cabinets. This paragraph is actually a conclusion of this story.

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