Beschreibung:
Chloe Aridjis, geboren 1971 in New York, aufgewachsen in Mexiko und den Niederlanden, studierte Komparatistik in Harvard und Oxford. Sie hat ab 2003 für fünf Jahre in Berlin gelebt und lehrt heute an der City University in London. 2014 wurde Aridjis mit dem renommierten John-Simon-Guggenheim-Stipendium ausgezeichnet. 2015 war sie Mit-Kuratorin der Leonora-Carrington-Ausstellung in der Tate Liverpool.
Marie s job as a museum guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and quiet contemplation. But amid the hushed corridors surge currents of history and violence, paintings whose power belie their own fragility. There also lingers the legacy of her great-grandfather Ted, the warder who slipped and fell moments before reaching the suffragette Mary Richardson as she took a blade to one of the gallery s masterpieces on the eve of the First World War.After nine years there, Marie begins to feel the tug of restlessness. A decisive change comes in the form of a winter trip to Paris, where, with the arrival of an uninvited guest and an unexpected encounter, her carefully contained world is torn apart.
Marie s job as a museum guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and quiet contemplation. But amid the hushed corridors surge currents of history and violence, paintings whose power belie their own fragility. There also lingers the legacy of her great-grandfather Ted, the warder who slipped and fell moments before reaching the suffragette Mary Richardson as she took a blade to one of the gallery s masterpieces on the eve of the First World War.After nine years there, Marie begins to feel the tug of restlessness. A decisive change comes in the form of a winter trip to Paris, where, with the arrival of an uninvited guest and an unexpected encounter, her carefully contained world is torn apart.