Judith Raum’s drawings, titled ‘Iguana’, pick up on motifs from the 1965 novel of the same name by Italian writer Anna Maria Ortese (1914–1988) and show us a choreography of desire. In her novel, Ortese connects questions being posed in the discourse on ecology with the sketching of a sexuality that transgresses prevailing norms. Iguana describes in detail the vulnerable being of a female iguana, who lives on a hitherto unmapped island called Ocaña in slave-like conditions and yet dares to make efforts at rebellion. The book treats the desire of a rich count, who determines to liberate Iguana from her existence as a slave by purchasing her freedom, as a metaphor for the loss of the natural interactions between animals and men, which were increasingly perverted in the course of the 20th century. At the same time, it reflects on expanded forms of eroticism and love. In her large-format drawings, Raum’s lucid layerings of color reinforce the ambiguity of the subject and the fable-like character of her literary source.