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“As Hamlet said to Ophelia, ”God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." The battle between these two halves of identity...Who we are and who we pretend to be, is unwinnable. "Just as there are two sides to every story, there are two sides to every person. One that we reveal to the world and another we keep hidden inside. A duality governed by the balance of light and darkness, within each of us is the capacity for both good and evil. But those who are able to blur the moral dividing line hold the true power.” ― Emily Thorne The work is a portrait of a modern Ophelia. Shakespeare inspired depictions of Ophelia in paintings usually show Ophelia as she already dead while she lays in the water. In this work, Ophelia appears caught in an abstract landscape. This could be at the same time an abstract representation of her death in the pond and a view of her in the moments before her death. The interpretation is open to the viewer. The presence of flowers, plants, and a bird underlines the close relationship between the character and nature (and between the artist and nature).
“As Hamlet said to Ophelia, ”God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." The battle between these two halves of identity...Who we are and who we pretend to be, is unwinnable. "Just as there are two sides to every story, there are two sides to every person. One that we reveal to the world and another we keep hidden inside. A duality governed by the balance of light and darkness, within each of us is the capacity for both good and evil. But those who are able to blur the moral dividing line hold the true power.” ― Emily Thorne The work is a portrait of a modern Ophelia. Shakespeare inspired depictions of Ophelia in paintings usually show Ophelia as she already dead while she lays in the water. In this work, Ophelia appears caught in an abstract landscape. This could be at the same time an abstract representation of her death in the pond and a view of her in the moments before her death. The interpretation is open to the viewer. The presence of flowers, plants, and a bird underlines the close relationship between the character and nature (and between the artist and nature).
“As Hamlet said to Ophelia, ”God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." The battle between these two halves of identity...Who we are and who we pretend to be, is unwinnable. "Just as there are two sides to every story, there are two sides to every person. One that we reveal to the world and another we keep hidden inside. A duality governed by the balance of light and darkness, within each of us is the capacity for both good and evil. But those who are able to blur the moral dividing line hold the true power.” ― Emily Thorne The work is a portrait of a modern Ophelia. Shakespeare inspired depictions of Ophelia in paintings usually show Ophelia as she already dead while she lays in the water. In this work, Ophelia appears caught in an abstract landscape. This could be at the same time an abstract representation of her death in the pond and a view of her in the moments before her death. The interpretation is open to the viewer. The presence of flowers, plants, and a bird underlines the close relationship between the character and nature (and between the artist and nature).
“As Hamlet said to Ophelia, ”God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." The battle between these two halves of identity...Who we are and who we pretend to be, is unwinnable. "Just as there are two sides to every story, there are two sides to every person. One that we reveal to the world and another we keep hidden inside. A duality governed by the balance of light and darkness, within each of us is the capacity for both good and evil. But those who are able to blur the moral dividing line hold the true power.” ― Emily Thorne The work is a portrait of a modern Ophelia. Shakespeare inspired depictions of Ophelia in paintings usually show Ophelia as she already dead while she lays in the water. In this work, Ophelia appears caught in an abstract landscape. This could be at the same time an abstract representation of her death in the pond and a view of her in the moments before her death. The interpretation is open to the viewer. The presence of flowers, plants, and a bird underlines the close relationship between the character and nature (and between the artist and nature).
“As Hamlet said to Ophelia, ”God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." The battle between these two halves of identity...Who we are and who we pretend to be, is unwinnable. "Just as there are two sides to every story, there are two sides to every person. One that we reveal to the world and another we keep hidden inside. A duality governed by the balance of light and darkness, within each of us is the capacity for both good and evil. But those who are able to blur the moral dividing line hold the true power.” ― Emily Thorne The work is a portrait of a modern Ophelia. Shakespeare inspired depictions of Ophelia in paintings usually show Ophelia as she already dead while she lays in the water. In this work, Ophelia appears caught in an abstract landscape. This could be at the same time an abstract representation of her death in the pond and a view of her in the moments before her death. The interpretation is open to the viewer. The presence of flowers, plants, and a bird underlines the close relationship between the character and nature (and between the artist and nature).
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Ophelia (the dream) Painting

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“As Hamlet said to Ophelia, ”God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." The battle between these two halves of identity...Who we are and who we pretend to be, is unwinnable. "Just as there are two sides to every story, there are two sides to every person. One that we reveal to the world and another we keep hidden inside. A duality governed by the balance of light and darkness, within each of us is the capacity for both good and evil. But those who are able to blur the moral dividing line hold the true power.” ― Emily Thorne The work is a portrait of a modern Ophelia. Shakespeare inspired depictions of Ophelia in paintings usually show Ophelia as she already dead while she lays in the water. In this work, Ophelia appears caught in an abstract landscape. This could be at the same time an abstract representation of her death in the pond and a view of her in the moments before her death. The interpretation is open to the viewer. The presence of flowers, plants, and a bird underlines the close relationship between the character and nature (and between the artist and nature).

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Size:31 W x 40 H x 1 D in

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Valentina Ferrarese is a visual artist from Venice (Italy) living and working in Berlin (Germany). She studied painting and art history at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, as well as visual arts and curatorial practice at the Venice University of Architecture and the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. In 2008 she completed a Master's Program of the Arts at the University of Berlin. Since then she has worked as an artist and project curator in collaboration with art and social institutions, as well as an art historian and educator for various museums in Berlin and its surroundings.

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