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Like a playwright, Valérie Favre often finds the motifs for her paintings in literature, which she then brings to life on the canvas. Domination is part of a trilogy inspired by fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. In a ghostly forest landscape, whose background evokes the Romantic painting Die Toteninsel [The Isle of the Dead] by Arnold Böcklin, figures with uncertain identities seem to dissolve into the surface of the work through dripping paint. The depths of the canvas thus contain numerous enigmas and hidden paths.