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" A Very Narrow Human Interval Between Two Tiger Heartbeats
A Very Narrow Human Interval Between Two Tiger Heartbeats (after Nabocov Lolita).
Wood display box 120cm x 80cm x 10cm, 50 clay pieces, 50 cards.
As a total, there are 50 clay pieces that correspond with all the mentions of Lolita's clothes in the book by Nabocov. The title of the work " A Very Narrow Human Interval Between Two TIger Heartbeats " is also taken from the book.
Each clay piece in the display box - a kind of formless hybrid between a chunk of flesh and the remains of a meteorite - is labelled with a card bearing the name or description of a clothing item.
The pieces of clay and their corresponding cards, are displayed like if they were minerals exposed in a Science Museum display box.
This work started after reading Lolita by Nabocov, and realizing how important were the descriptions of Lolita's clothes, and how often they appear in the book.
The clothes in the story are used as means of power: whenever Lolita is angry and desperate, his "stepfather" buys her comics and clothes. But the power Lolita's clothes re-present in the book, goes beyond a mere tool to pacify her angry fits. They embody a different kind of power, that of creating an "ideal Lolita": the permanent "nimphete" that remains forever, motionless, in a perfect state between the submision of childhood and the sexual disposition of adulthood.
Wood display box 120cm x 80cm x 10cm, 50 clay pieces, 50 cards.
As a total, there are 50 clay pieces that correspond with all the mentions of Lolita's clothes in the book by Nabocov. The title of the work " A Very Narrow Human Interval Between Two TIger Heartbeats " is also taken from the book.
Each clay piece in the display box - a kind of formless hybrid between a chunk of flesh and the remains of a meteorite - is labelled with a card bearing the name or description of a clothing item.
The pieces of clay and their corresponding cards, are displayed like if they were minerals exposed in a Science Museum display box.
This work started after reading Lolita by Nabocov, and realizing how important were the descriptions of Lolita's clothes, and how often they appear in the book.
The clothes in the story are used as means of power: whenever Lolita is angry and desperate, his "stepfather" buys her comics and clothes. But the power Lolita's clothes re-present in the book, goes beyond a mere tool to pacify her angry fits. They embody a different kind of power, that of creating an "ideal Lolita": the permanent "nimphete" that remains forever, motionless, in a perfect state between the submision of childhood and the sexual disposition of adulthood.
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