![]() ![]() Originally an illiterate maid from a peasant background, the physic medium, Eusapia Palladino attained a status unimaginable to 19th century society. Although her psychic powers were genuine, Palladino’s séances were habitually based on trickery, thereby creating a parody of her gullible participants… Attracting prominent figures such as Tsar Nicholas II and Madame Curie, she preyed on their vulnerabilities with her eerie utterances and levitating tables. Palladino is a favourite of the performance artist Chiara Fumai whose enactments reveal a medley of eccentrics contrived by swapping the narratives of historic individuals and thereby making them her own. Inspired originally by the fake identities of the New Romantic Dance Movement, Italo Disco, Fumai delights in the personas of terrorists, activists, philosophers and freaks and from here, she assumes her feminist stance within the protection of her various guises. The Book of Evil Spirits, her latest installation comprises film, collage and found objects. Housed in vitrines, the artists’s colourless paraphernalia suggest the ghastly vibes of a funeral parlour. Here lie the props for her performance and the accoutrements of her immoral spirits flesh coloured gloves, a blindfold, the silky beard of Annie Jones, Dope Head’s shisha pipe and the ghostly attire of Zalumma Agra.
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