100x129,5 cm x 199,5x129,5 cm, oil on canvas, 2022
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Being a diptych, the artwork is composed of two parts, The Curtain and Dress Rehearsal, works separated as surfaces but which, however, form a whole. The first part poses a female character sweeping. The character is a spectral one, a stereoscopic mirage present and, at the same time, immaterial. The character merges with the curtain itself that it personifies and the status of a sweeper that it illustrates contrasts with its sophisticated appearance.
Imported from the theater world, the sintagm “dress rehearsal” denotes the last performance before the premiere of a play. In other words, the work invites us into the backstage of an act that is preparing to be released. The presence of the rhino costume debunks the allusion to the rhinocerization described by Eugene Ionesco. The reaffirming of violence and conformity, essential characteristics of the brute force criticized in the Rhinoceros play, is perceived as a threat and is met with a disapproving gesture.
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