Archive for October, 2008
Purgatory is a temporal noun. There are no clocks in the Inferno or in Paradise—there is no time in eternity. But Purgatory is immanently ephemeral. At least, that’s how Dante would have it. Purgatory is also theatre. It is a morality play writ large, where the actors are sinners and the curtain call is the […]
Video artist Eve Sussman brings her latest work, The Rape of the Sabine Women, to the Melbourne International Arts Festival this month. Based on an eighteenth century painting by Jacques-Louis David, it is an example of the artist’s ongoing use of canonical paintings as sources of inspiration.
Sussman was born in London in 1961 to American […]