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Categories: Photography
Keywords: Emancipation | Montage
Works by Valie Export:
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Rounding off Adjugated Dislocations I + II From the Underdog File Autohypnosis Images of Contact Body Sign Action Cutting The Birth Madonna Eros/ion Facing a Family Body Superimpositions with Historical Reproductions o.T. Ping Pong Seeing and Hearing Space Visual Text: Finger Poem Split Reality Fixed Identity Tap and Touch cinema Touching Time and Countertime Train Fitting
Valie Export
«Venus and Mars»
In similar fashion to her video work with historical superimpositions, Valie Export uses a collage of self-portrait and a famous art-historical model – in this case, Botticelli’s ‘Venus and Mars’, 1483 – to investigate what she calls the historical ‘archive of body postures’. Through her identification with an idealized female figure in a mythological painting, the unchanging portrayal of woman through the ages is abruptly called into question.
