Dorina, 2019
In collaboration with Marthe Ramm Fortun for Tegnetriennalen 2019, Tegneforbundet, Oslo. HD Video, stereo. Duration: 7’45’’

A reinterpretation of Carol Rama’s “Dorina” (1940), a drawing featured in the exhibition “Drawing-The Bottom Line” (S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, 2015), where I was participating with daily performances while expecting my first child. In conversations with my partner, we referred to Rama’s drawing as “Leda and the Swan”, remembering it as a depiction of Leda strangling the animal, rather than being seduced by it. Inspired by such a myth-reversing figure, we named our daughter after her. When we later requested the loan of Rama's drawing for an upcoming project, we discovered that the actual title was “Dorina” and that the association with the myth was a projection. The video Dorina (2019) reinterprets the absent drawing, the loan of which was refused by the Carol Rama estate.