João Onofre | And yet… so different

Curator: Dalia Levin
Mar. 16, 2002 – May 18, 2002

Casting, video, 2002, 12:59 min
Untitled, 1998, loop 3 min

In the work Casting, young models are called to audition for a film, delivering individually the ending line from Rossellini’s film Stromboli (1950): “Who will Give me the strength, the understanding, and the courage!”. The comic nature of the situation lies in the ridiculous manner of presentation of the sentence which bears an inherent humanistic meaning.

 

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