Luisa Gaffron wanders through art history, reciting poetry as she goes. With a skull and a fringe bag, she takes her cues from the iconography of Mary Magdalene, roaming the galleries of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum. Past Judith and Holofernes, into the formidable legacy of the Old Masters and their patriarchal ways.
Beneath the weight of centuries, the possibility of change still stirs. It runs through sissi petutschnig’s poem, where happiness frays in every direction, progress refuses to come easily, and hope, for all its troubles, refuses to be shaken off.