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The Skin I Live In Portrait of Vera as Ariadne with her back turned

  • Publication type: Journal article
  • Journal: Écrans
    2021 – 2, n° 16
    . La peinture de portrait : enjeux cinématographiques
  • Author: Ragel (Philippe)
  • Abstract: 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.
  • Pages: 227 to 238
  • Journal: Screens
  • CLIL theme: 3157 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Sciences de l'information et de la communication
  • EAN: 9782406130130
  • ISBN: 978-2-406-13013-0
  • 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