How is a space inhabited? Is a painting just an object? Is the figure of the painting dead?<\/p>\n
A woman lives together with two paintings, Tsarouchis\u2019 \u201cSailor\u201d and Dante Gabriel Rossetti\u2019s \u201cProserpine\u201d. She lives with them; they keep her company.<\/p>\n
The paintings come to life. She talks with them. She looks at them, takes care of them, asks them questions and they answer back in first-person singular, they make remarks, educate her, comment on her writings.<\/p>\n
The Sailor, a national and erotic symbol, demands respect, while the Proserpine reverses all certainties, dictates a one-act play to the customer-narrator.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou write down whatever comes to your mind. You distort my words and you misspell\u201d Proserpine says to the Woman. Art as a subject and the man who imitates it… and not \u201cart imitating life\u201d, conversely. The paintings are in agony of their own existence but also of the woman\u2019s existence, in a surreal and absurd game.<\/p>\n
The Sailor will commit suicide later on.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Prosperina<\/p>\n
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