Fall of Giants

Teresa Bandettini was one of the most talented eclectic woman of the XIX century. She was well known as the intellectual dancer due to her captivating and touching extemporization performances. Writing poetry meant revealing everything about herself, as a woman, an artist, a muse, but always embodying grace and enchantment. Her calling to art was strong and carnal. Her impetuous verses took over her, exposing her naked soul to the response that was always favourable. Recalling the mythology of Ovid's Metamorphoses through the Medusa’s stone mask, this diptych proposes a parallel between Greek myths told in Teresa Bandettini’s poem “Fall of Giants” and Teresa Bandettini herself. I invite the viewer to seek the mystery beyond the appearance, in the broken up image, in the place between real and surreal.