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Oscar Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Gullvåg’s third literary series has its point of origin in Oscar Wilde’s last work,
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), where the author describes experiences from his incarceration at Reading Prison in 1895-97. The poem is an appeal against the death penalty. The main protagonist is a fellow prisoner on death row, and Wilde describes how the death sentence and prison life rob all those involved of their human dignity.

Gullvåg has not only depicted scenes from the poem, but has also actualised them as a reminder that the poem is also relevant for our own era. Gullvåg’s series consists of 20 circular paintings and 12 lithographs. The round form can function as a symbol for eternal repetition. The story goes on and on – but it also contains the seed of hope, that eventually the day will come when the death penalty is abolished globally.

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