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At the death
of her uncle, Natalia Ruiz
was surprised to discover hundreds of sentimental novels in her uncle’s
cellar. As she couldn’t keep this embarrassing and disconcerting
heritage, she decided to keep only the front and back covers of these
paperbacks. She transformed this odd material into a pictorial and
literary work: One Night Pirate. On the one hand
she produced watercolour copies of the front-page pictures (pink for
kisses, blue for an embrace), on the other hand she used the titles
and mixed them according to rhythm and rhymes to produce short poems.
One Night Pirate with its water colours on
the left page and poems on the right page is a poignant panorama of
a feminine dream colonised by industrial fantasy and recurrent standardized
love models.
One Night Pirate is a love story written by a young
Western woman at the very beginning of the 21th century.
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