Rome’s 170 year old Ditta Medici. The World of Interiors, July 2008. Photo - Melane Acevedo

The World of Interiors, November 2020. Photo - Jean Marie del Moral

Francis Alÿs - Paradox Of Praxis 1, 1997

“Ray was part of a wave of artists during the 1970s who addressed sculpture as an activity rather than as an object. In the iconic two-part photographic work Plank Piece the artist documents the use of his own body as the sculptural component. The static photograph belies the performative nature of the activity presented. Contrived through a complex balance between weight and gravity the artist suspended his body using only a plank of wood, creating a minimal, graphic image that is at once humorous and unsettling.”

A Superior Mirage that comes from the Italian term named after the Arthurian sorceress Morgan le Fay, from a belief that these mirages, often seen in the Strait of Messina, were fairy castles in the air or false land created by her witchcraft to lure sailors to their deaths. It’s also believed that this illusion caused the myth of The Flying Dutchman to emerge.

Louise Bourgeois, Untitled, drawing in ink on double face paper, 27 x 22 cm (10,53 x 8,58 in.)

Saturnina Canaleta de Girona (detail), Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, 1856.

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh 

Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

Louise Bourgeois, Untitled, drawing in ink on double face paper, 27 x 22 cm (10,53 x 8,58 in.)

. Louise Bourgeois,  Eccentric Growth I. 2006

Louise Bourgeois (French-American, 1911-2010) - Paris Review, Aquatint and drypoint with stencil additions in white acrylic, on Somerset paper, 80.00 x 60.00 cm (1994)