In the Labyrinth (of Borges)
My painting In the Labyrinth (of Borges) is inspired by the short story The House of Asterion by Jorge Luis Borges, in which the Minotaur—a mythological figure often seen as an executioner—is humanized through his fears, fragility, and desire for redemption. The absence of resistance, the refusal to fight, and the surrender to death become, for him, the only path to freedom.
Here the Minotaur is depicted as a man, kneeling in submission, rejecting the logic of violence and conflict. Traces of the mythological creature emerge in the tendrils of taurine horns at the bottom of the painting and in the faint arc above his head. His legs lose their human form, appearing more ethereal and undefined through the rust, reinforcing the sense of transformation and sacrifice.
Sabatino Cersosimo
