The series of five paintings is based on the novel Orlando: A Biography that Virginia Woolf wrote in 1928. It is a biographical autofiction and is considered a love letter...
The series of five paintings is based on the novel Orlando: A Biography that Virginia Woolf wrote in 1928. It is a biographical autofiction and is considered a love letter dedicated to her girlfriend Vita Sackville-West.
Orlando's multifaceted game of identities is reflected in both The Poet's Library and The Oak Tree. Alluding to one of her/his highest aspirations, which was to become a poet. In The Poet's Library, the identities of the readers are veiled by that large perforated awning that casts shadows of faces that look at these characters who pretend to read books from that construction. Talking heads have been a widely used resource in the history of art, artists of symbolism or surrealism stand out and are used as characters that reveal secrets or pose enigmas.