A Dora D.

A Dora D. was made at the former pawnshop in Palazzo Branciforte in Palermo. In the photograph, the artist’s body is in dialogue with the grid structure that connotes the spontaneous wooden architecture of the warehouse, in which vertical and horizontal lines intersect on several levels like the bars of a cage. The work is a tribute to Dora Diamant, the woman who took care of Franz Kafka in the terminal phase of his life when the author wrote his last story entitled A Hunger Artist (1922), whose protagonist performed publicly in a cage guarded by three guardians, finding himself in the paradoxical situation of earning his bread by fasting.