Rä di Martino, beginning with her earliest works, has focused on the relationship between the illusory and the real. Initially cinema and theatrical stage sets were the field in which she conducted her research, in a quest to pinpoint the mechanisms of construction of fiction, in order to expose them, clarify them, and test their resistance to revealing their deception. Her method in some ways is similar to the procedures of deconstructionism in literary theory: the misfiring of the mechanism seems to be the first step toward analysis. [...]
