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.
The Turkish Getaway refers to a key moment in the novel in which Orlando is sent as ambassador to Turkey and there, after a dream that lasted seven days, the transition from man to woman takes place. After living in that place a period of happiness and personal fulfillment, she decides to flee because there she fears for her life and her context begins to condition her in certain patriarchal conventions towards what is expected of a woman, such as being linked with a man to procreate and have children. These conditioning factors are represented by sheep that are being sheared and gradually making the movements of the central figure impossible (Orlando as a woman).