Aus der Traumfabrik / From the Dream Factory

Ariana Papademetropolous wears red lips with dark hair and a delicate white vintage dress against her porcelain colored skin. The artist has taken a seat on the velvet cushions in the living room of her dollhouse in northeast Los Angeles. Iridescent soap bubbles adorn the wallpaper. On the coffee table, a huge shell with a wooden snail as a base. Vito Schnabel, son of the painter Julian Schnabel and the gallerist of the artist, sent a bombastic flower bouquet from New York. It’s a stage ready set up that makes Papademetropolous seem like the leading protagonist in her own movie.