(Entlastungen) Pipilottis Fehler
Pipilotti Rist
Swiss, born 1962
1988
In this eleven-minute color-and-sound video, Pipilotti Rist uses slowed motion and TV-like horizontal disruptions to transform her own filmed body into a dreamlike, tactile presence that questions how screens mediate self and perception.
The image hits you with saturated lawn-green and repeated horizontal color bands that slice the kneeling figure into shimmering, slightly out-of-register layers, making her shadow and gesture feel both familiar and oddly distorted.
Created in the late 1980s, the piece helped pioneer a playful, feminist strand of video art that used consumer-electronics effects and signal ‘errors’ to reveal the medium’s apparatus and reopen possibilities for body, movement, and intimacy on screen.
Medium
Video (color, sound)
Dimensions
11:10 min.
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley, Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro, and Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis
Accession
589.2008
Palette
Exhibitions
