Shakespeareana
“Shakespeareana” embodies some of Shakespeare’s most captivating women figures. Through styling, costumes, and photography this project explores the main themes, symbols and motifs that bring about characters’ story and emotions often understated.
Shot in 35mm film camera, “Shakespeareana” wanders through the profound qualities and characteristics of Desdemona in “Othello”, Juliet in “Romeo and Juliet”, Gertrude and Ophelia in “Hamlet”, Lady Macbeth and the Three Witches in “Macbeth”, and Titania in “A Midsummer Night's Dream”. Portrayed as classical paintings in contemporary settings, these dramatic interpretation of Shakespeare’s women figures reveal the dualities of power and weakness, love and hate, magic and reality, trust and jealousy, ambition and manipulation, honor and revenge, life and death.
The art direction and styling of “Shakespeareana” illustrate a temporal dimension to the fictional personas of Shakespeare’s characters that bring attention to questions and conflicts in relation to the role of women in society that are still relevant today.
Concept & Art Direction, Costume Design, Styling, Photography by: ALBULENA BOROVCI