Julia Oschatz (Germany, 1970). The alignment of a context we thought we knew is a central theme in his works, which often play with both the laws of physics and our notion of social habits and human psychology.The works we are presenting at DRL 2025 are from his project “Romeo’s Mistake,” which speaks to the translation into the biological world of the circumstances experienced by Romeo in William Shakespeare’s play: he thought Juliet was dead and committed suicide while she was asleep. These are drawings on paper that capture details of each missing animal and are the seed of the series. In them, he doesn’t seek to approach the behavior or physical appearance of these animals, but simply to act behind their usual masks, with those almost absurd manners that force us to mentally translate their gestures and, in a way, force us to engage in an exercise in greasing our possibly rusty cognitive and reflective capacities.