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Pasiones
Rosa Montero
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Eighteen portraits of famous couples examine love through the contradictions of actual lives. Rosa Montero follows attachments marked by desire, dependence, ambition and conflict. Bringing historical figures into an intimate frame, these pieces explore how private relationships complicate the public images that survive them.
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Oxígeno
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