ISOLATION | Cinemas of Solitude

In his book on the work of British painter Francis Bacon, published in 1969 and titled The Logic of Sensation, French philosopher Gilles Deleuze suggests several rudimentary “techniques of isolation” that may be employed in subtle combinations so as to isolate a given Figure within a frame. The same could also be said of literature – of Samuel Beckett’s absurdist theatre, of Franz Kafka’s dark existentialism and Luigi Pirandello’s ironic ambivalence – and thus, also...