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become a Victorian costume , appears as a new character in the script of Barry Lyndon . The dress designed by Laura Whitcomb , wearing which Madonna grabbed the New York spotlight in the nineties , fits in the gothic scenes of The Shining . The mysterious darkness of the enigmatic ritual of Eyes Wide Shut embraces a venus in fur , embellished with sensual bourgeois pearls . And more , the 90s shoes with a fetish flavour explode through the frames of A Clockwork Orange . Finally , the dreamiest evening dress dangled in soft tulle ruches bursts into the aseptic and dystopian space of the Discovery One in 2001 : A Space Odyssey . This situationist game mixes historical plans , references , experiences . The past explodes into the present .
Everything can become anything , or something else . As in that famous scene of Kubrick ’ s masterpiece , where the bone turns into a spaceship . As in life .
comedy , horror looks like a psychophilosophic treatise , the feeling of truth evolves into the uncanny . Kubrick was , in essence , a real sculptor of genres : the “ cross-genre ” director , ahead of his time . His ability to build stories that exceed significance , crossing borders and setting labels on fire , has always been deeply inspiring to me . circuits where the adidas gown , that had already lost its status of sportswear to
With “ Exquisite ” I carry on my attempt to mingle high and low , this time coherently and synergistically with the grammar of the great director . In the selected sequences it feels like Nietzsche , Kant and Freud speak casually to the people in the street . The biggest questions about the meaning of life become pop images . Complex transfigurations in terms of significance , get immediate accesses in terms of experience .
As an act of love , I decided to reinhabit Kubrick ’ s films , pushing to the core this incendiary approach . I took the liberty of disassembling , blending , grafting and reassembling them . Sticking to my creative praxis , I seized those movies , resemanticizing them , populating them with my clothes . Trying to create short
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