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ROMANCE perfect as possible: “All of us, then, men and women

alike, must fall in with our role and spend life in making

our play as perfect as possible...” As a matter of fact
man did so several times throughout time, playing

more or less a good play, but the urge to return to

play has been always powerful, and the artists have

expressed it in various ways. Most evocative remains
no doubt the Shakespearean line from the monologue

of the melancholy Jacques about the world as a stage

on which: “all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances.”

But why are so fascinating these masked protagonists

of Victor Hagea? What makes their apparition so
intriguing? Their bodies, like über-marionettes, are

larger than life, unfamiliar or, as Freud might say,

“uncanny” (unheimliche), by contrast to the human

body. But it is exactly this otherness of their body
which makes them instrumental to bridge to the

beyond, to inscribe mystery into the present. These

bodies seem to be some proxies from another world,

able to establish the contact with the invisible, making
present the absent in a magic way. At once, in time

and no time, there are bridging between here and

there, between then and now. Signs of an epiphany,

reminders of our beginnings, the players/protagonists
of Victor Hagea have perhaps the function to keep

alive the memory of the original play. We don’t know

exactly what they play, and what is the dramatic

plot of their play; but no doubt the very play is the
condition and the force of their ontological mode of

being, and this is a constant challenge for mankind,

which necessarily goes through imperfections and

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