Uma palavra vaga como a vida

uma casa-museu abre-se à arte inspirada por Virginia Woolf

Abstract

ABSTTRACT: Life, a word that meant so much for Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)’s art, but that the English writer never cared to explain. Maybe it was mainly through writing that she faced the hours of life, and “The Hours” was exactly her working title for Mrs Dalloway (1925). A preliminary version of the present text, intitled “A Word as Vague as Life: a Conversation about Virginia Woolf”, was read at the House Museum Eva Klabin, in Rio de Janeiro, on June 13^th, 2024. The Reading took place in the frame of the exhibition A House of One’s Own (from April 13^th to June 16^th). Its curator, Isabel Portella, asked fourteen women artists to create art works inspired by Woolf’s literature and intervene artistically in the premises of the house museum. Through the prism of the relation between literature and other arts, the aim of this essay is to create connections between the art intervention by the fourteen artists and Woolf’s novels and essays.