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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple." Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

In the Victorian comedy of manners by Oscar Wilde, two of the characters pretend to be someone else: they apply another identity-namely the one of Earnest-to their own and until the end of the three-acts they play an exciting role-game, which is resolved through a surprising coincidence.

In Francesca Woodman's work there seems to be a tripartite congruency that manifests a certain simultaneity. Three subjects are indeed present at the same time: the subject-photographer, the …