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Venezuelan artist Rafaela Baroni (1935-) is the subject of Sergio Chejfec's Baroni: A Journey, yet its psychogeographic art tour conflates sculptures and embalmed bodies, past and present, landscape and paper, not to mention the countless streets and plazas in Venezuela named for Simón Bolívar. As the narrator says, his is a confusion "so ingrained that it was a cadence, or an inclination, assumed as natural, much like a chronic pain": [A]ny description of the facts would be only halfway comprehensible and in great part entirely indecipherable. For certain things fiction wasn't any good; I'd always suspected this, but now it was absolutely clear. And why wasn't it? Not because it distorted the truth, that could be praiseworthy, but because it revealed itself to be a useless trick. I couldn't imagine who would be interested in the past of a wooden figure, even if I happened to present her as somebody real. But interested wasn't the word: who would be inspired by it to some feeling, to at least an affinity, or be afforded some lesson, when we all know that life hides no secrets.

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Author

Claire Solomon

Publisher

Taylor and Francis Group; Informa UK (Taylor & Francis); Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group; Informa UK Limited (ISSN 0890-5762)

Published

2019

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)