La vie est un songe (Pedro Calderon de la Barca), Simone Simon — 2020 · Box of 20 photographs in digital silver-halide print, Lambda. Signed and titled on the…
16 March to 11 May 2020. Stay-at-home order. La vie est un songe simone simon Confinement breeds a feeling of anguish and frustration. Not being able to move about as I wish calls my photographic practice into question. A bond forms between what I am living and what I would like to live. The desire to escape prompts me to turn my gaze outward, in order to forget the walls around me. It is from my terrace that I will work, by night and by day. The black box contains these photographs gathered during this suspended time. On the back of each photograph is written the title of a book related to the image. These books were chosen for the way they evoke, more or less directly, confinement or escape. 20 colour photographs 14x21, signed and numbered. « La vie est un songe » Pedro Calderon de la Barca The strength of this seventeenth-century Spanish baroque comedy lies in one central idea: life is a dream, all reality is only deceptive illusion. Sigismund, heir prince of Poland, has lived in secret in a tower since King Basil read in the stars that his son would deliver the kingdom to violence.
