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At the intersection of theatre, cinema and performance, Alfredo Arias presents Hello Andy? at the Palais de Tokyo. Originally conceived for Room 37 (salle 37), the work explores the mythologies of the image, transforming the space into a surface where image itself becomes a dramatic material.
Centred on the fading aura of Hollywood icon Joan Crawford, once at the core of luminous and dark melodramas, the work situates her at the twilight of her reign. In a bid to defy obsolescence, she reaches to Andy Warhol. The intention is to replace Elizabeth Taylor as his muse for the Ferus Gallery silkscreens.
The Diva’s intrusion unfolds via telephone: only Joan’s lines are heard.
Her black-and-white world has irrevocably shifted. Her image now belongs to a distant past, condemning her to exist solely as an icon in a souvenir album.
Hello Andy? charts the solitude of a woman, a former star held captive by the silver screen, confronting a future embodied by Pop artist Andy Warhol, who propelled the reality of his era towards a nonchalant, visionary tomorrow.
Hello Andy? is a monologue punctuated by images and songs, in which theatre converges with the visual arts, becoming a Pop screen-print around Joan Crawford’s desire to survive. In the manner of Warhol’s portraits, the piece offers a patchwork of vivid, vibrating moments from an imaginary conversation between the star and the Pop artist
