red werther

What remains of the romantic lover today? Are there still Werthers? Red Werther is a video art project that takes as its starting point Goethe’s original text and the imagery of Romantic painting to portray a pathetic figure, with no defined sex or gender, wandering through a time and rhythm of its own, oscillating between extreme suffering and contemplation. This suffering, unproductive character moves through a series of situations that evoke experiences of the drift of contemporary love: solitude before a post-industrial landscape, before the consumption of bodies, before a culture of entertainment and escapism, before the proliferation and excess of images…