Kozyra

winter's tale

winter's tale

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film, 2005—2006

The Winter's Tale assumes the form of a film and is another piece in the series In Art Dreams Come True. It is the first piece in which Gloria Viagra and the Maestro appear in a single setting and in equally important roles, vying for the body and soul of their student, Kozyra. The artist is transformed into someone like Snow White, who inhabits a strange forest inn with a company of dwarves. The film, whose narrative lacks closure and seems hazy, combines and blends various myths and stories, as well as diverse film styles: horror with melodrama and comedy, contemporary fable with period film, musical with opera and operetta. It simultaneously constitutes "documentation" of a setback, a record of the artist's struggle to insert herself and all those around her into a convention with a view towards exploding that convention from the inside.