Christiana Soulou
21 Jan - 21 Feb 2009
CHRISTIANA SOULOU
"A Midsummer Night's Dream"
21 January 2009 – 21 February 2009
35 Heddon St W1
“With this series of drawings, I tried to give my own interpretation of Shakespeare’s play. I believe that A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a terrifying story, and that its main/fundamental subject is the passage through bestiality.
The conflict with the bestial as a necessary path towards humanisation is a very dear theme to Heinrich von Kleist. In his essay on the duel between the fencer and the bear (Über das Marionettentheater, 1810), Kleist sees the confrontation between human and beast as the only possible way for man to win back the lost paradise of innocence...
...The beast for Shakespeare, as well as for Kleist, is the human soul, the one untouched by any affliction. Kleist, as well as Shakespeare, talks to us about the human through the beast.
"A Midsummer Night's Dream"
21 January 2009 – 21 February 2009
35 Heddon St W1
“With this series of drawings, I tried to give my own interpretation of Shakespeare’s play. I believe that A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a terrifying story, and that its main/fundamental subject is the passage through bestiality.
The conflict with the bestial as a necessary path towards humanisation is a very dear theme to Heinrich von Kleist. In his essay on the duel between the fencer and the bear (Über das Marionettentheater, 1810), Kleist sees the confrontation between human and beast as the only possible way for man to win back the lost paradise of innocence...
...The beast for Shakespeare, as well as for Kleist, is the human soul, the one untouched by any affliction. Kleist, as well as Shakespeare, talks to us about the human through the beast.