This essay focuses on Guillermo Pérez Villalta’s painting, Dionysus Finds Ariadne on Naxos, in The Skin I Live In (Almodóvar, 2011). In the bedroom where this painting hangs, a screen on the opposite wall reproduces the actions and gestures of Vera, held prisoner by the professor who has trans-sexualised her against her will. This essay contends that the use of a screen aims at creating the unfigured painted face of Villalta’s painting set in front of it.
CLIL theme: 3157 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Sciences de l'information et de la communication
ISBN:978-2-406-13013-0
EAN:9782406130130
ISSN: 2491-2557
DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-13013-0.p.0227
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 04-13-2022
Periodicity: Biannual
Language: French
Keyword: Almodóvar, La piel que habito, Villalta, apparatus, fantasy, iconisation, painting, transgenesis