Reframed: The Woman in the Window review – all eyes on her indoors
May 08, 2022
3 minutes
There is a staggering vision in this exhibition of a woman’s head pressed against the bars of a window, her beautiful face enduring and forlorn. She is carved from a block of medieval limestone. The sculpture irresistibly calls upon your desire to break the bars and free the head, or at the very least reach inside to touch her sorrowful cheek. For refusing to marry, was imprisoned in a solitary cell with a view of the world she can see but never reach. The empathy of the anonymous French
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