
Orlando - Based on a novel by Virginia Woolf
, Fotomuseum Winterthur , Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland, 26 February 2022 - 29 May 2022The 1928 novel Orlando tells the story of a young noble person in the age of Queen Elizabeth I who lives for centuries without ageing and has the mysterious ability to switch gender. In 1992, film-maker Sally Potter devised what has become a classic adaptation of the book with actress Tilda Swinton in the title role. ‘I see Orlando as a story about the life and development of a human striving to become liberated entirely from the constructs of prescriptive gender or social norms of any kind,’ Tilda Swinton says of Woolf’s story.