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Marco Minozzi’s painting titled Fracture published in Berlin Quarterly to accompany the literary fiction “Rain” by the Nigerian writer Eloghosa Osunde.
Literary fiction titled “Rain”
by Eloghosa Osunde
Painting titled
Fracture
by Marco Minozzi
Literary fiction “Rain” by Eloghosa Osunde in Berlin Quarterly, Issue 10, Summer 2019.
Eloghosa Osunde
Eloghosa Osunde is a Nigerian writer and visual artist. An alumna of the Farafina Creative Writing Workshop (2015), the Caine Prize Workshop (2018) and New York Film Academy, her short stories have been longlisted for the 2017 Writivism Short Story Prize and published in The Paris Review, Catapult, and Berlin Quarterly. Osunde was awarded a 2017 Miles Morland Scholarship, was a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow, a 2020 MacDowell Colony Fellow and the 2021 prose judge of Fugue Journal’s annual writing contest. Her debut work of fiction, VAGABONDS! will be published by Riverhead Books, Penguin Random House, in 2022.
Marco Minozzi
A fracture, a rupture, disorder, dissolution: such are a few of the psychological states of the female protagonist that Eloghosa Osunde portrays in her intensely realistic narrative “Rain.” In turn, the expressive strokes of Marco Minozzi’s Fracture embody instances of the psychic states of Osunde’s central figure, now hovering in multiples within a highly tenebristic, Caravaggesque pictorial space, a space where the vertical axis and margins run parallel to those of the societal context of “Rain:” in lustrous gold, occult bister, pearly beige, and rare traces of radiant red.
The painting titled Fracture (2014) by Marco Minozzi, published in Berlin Quarterly, Issue 10, Summer 2019.