...we consider the tight-rope walker to be the living image of the real likelihood of falling. In fact, the latter's condition is only understood as a magical, festive prologue of an inevitable disappearance, or the logical unfurling of a virtuality which irremediably leads to the in-extremis consideration of its own limits. Up there, stretched out over the abyss which generates supernatural expectations, the tight-rope walker holds the condition of non-being and not even the humanity of his legs, watched by from an imposed perspective, give us the opportunity of seeing in him anything other than someone sent by the gods. But later everything is resolved and understood in the final act of the fall: the flying being one moment earlier finally acquires his inalterable real condition and his body, stretched out on the floor, offers us an updated version of Mantegna's Recumbent Christ... video production:

Escola Municipal de Belles Arts and
Evill, LLeida


ropewalker:

Joan Palau


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