A film installation in the Augarten Porcelain Museum in the context of the exhibition „LEOPOLDINA. Fearless to Rio“ curated by Dr. Claudia Lehner-Jobst, 2022

On the night of June 1, 1817, the imperial table at which Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria dined with her family was in what is now the Porcelain Museum in Augarten – a farewell party after Leopoldine was married per procurationem in Vienna to the Portuguese heir to the throne Dom Pedro, who reigned in Brasil and before she took the ship travelling in an 82 days journey to Rio de Janeiro.

I was asked to do a work dealing with Leopoldine from a psychological point of view and sentiment. And in fact referring to this special evening, when it must have become clear to her at last that she would leave her previous world forever and travel across the sea to a new, unknown country.

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