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‘Madame Bovary’ oil and thread on canvas Dimensions: 92 cm x 92 cm Part of the Fabrications series of paintings. These paintings reference classical literary motifs as parallels for contemporary dilemmas - such as hedonism, greed and extinction. You can read more about the Fabrication series here. "They examined her dresses, they turned out the linen, they rummaged about in the dressing-room. And her whole mode of life, with all its initmacies and secrets, was laid bare, like a corpse undergoing a post-mortem examination, to the gaze of these three men." Excerpt from Gustave Flaubert's novel "Madame Bovary"

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