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OPTIMISM is shot in the Palazzo della Civiltŕ, taking as a natural stage an environment where the shadow of hierarchy, power issues, corruption and alienation is still heavily present. Digital video, 10'20'', 2003 |
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Regulating Line The Louvre. The Life of Marie de Medici by Rubens: an immense baroque opera mixing breast plates with naked voluptuous bodies, flowing draperies with rigid ships; inspired by classical mythology, Rubens treats the biography of the seventieth century queen in an epic way. A young man stands in the middle of this mise en scčne. His only possible response seems necessarily physical. Digital video, 3'40'', 2005 |
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NÉGATEURS In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful Say: "O you disbelievers. I do not worship what you worship. Nor do you worship what I worship. Nor will I ever worship what you worship. Nor will you ever worship what I worship. To you is your religion, and to me is my religion." Digital video, 5'40'', 2003 |