Like a Sky Inside
Like a Sky Inside by Jakuta Alikavazovic, published by Fern Books on March 26, 2024, is a 160-page exploration of art and personal reflection. The narrative follows a young woman who spends a night in the Louvre, leaving her nine-month-old son at home. With a notebook and memories of art, travel, and her father’s whimsical musings about stealing the Mona Lisa, the book delves into themes of parenthood, foreignness, and the complex relationship between art and personal identity.
Readers will find an insightful meditation on the interplay between art and life, examining how experiences shape our understanding of belonging and the emotional connections we forge with places. The narrative intertwines elements of biography and personal memoir, offering a unique perspective on the possibilities and challenges of growing up. Through her reflections, Alikavazovic invites contemplation on the nature of art and its impact on our dreams and memories.
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In March 2020, a young woman spends the night in the Louvre. At home: her nine-month-old son. In her overnight bag: a notebook, a toiletry kit, a duvet, a cube of nougat, and something that shouldn’t be there. In her head: memories of the Venus de Milo, of land art and the American road, of romance and travel and immigration and war –and of her father, who after each of their many visits to the Louvre would ask just how she’d go about stealing the Mona Lisa. An insightful and heartfelt meditation on the possibilities and impossibilities of art, on parenthood and the betrayals of growing up, on foreignness and belonging, and on the secret conversations between our souls and the places that linger in our dreams.
Let’s go back even further, my father said. It’s not even certain that the original purpose of what we call art was to be seen.
In a way, we could go so far as to say that art, what we call art, is made less to be seen than to be stolen.
Winner of the Prix Medicis Essai 2021
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