Hermine Freed
Art Herstory (excerpt)
1974, 00:14:51, NTSC, Farbe
This work is a playful chronology of female imagery in art history. Hermine Freed uses video techniques to place her face or body into various female images in well-known paintings. She begins with religious paintings, putting herself dramatically in the roll of the Virgin Mary, and her friends situated as angels and other religious figures. She talks through the posed scenes, directing or making silly comments to the people around her, making the work very honest and funny, but also visually very unique. She is portrayed in various paintings, sometimes in costume, and she often picks up a video camera and points it at the screen, reflexively filming the audience. She becomes every woman in art history, takes on every roll, and narrates about women in society being tied to their time and circumstances. She challenges historical feminine portraiture, and contrasts the classical scenes with her modern video camera. The final Warhol painting, is a beautiful image with Freed`s repeated face, moving and talking, in altered colours as a post-modern feminist Marilyn Monroe. (lg)
Schlagworte:
Performance, Körper, Identität, Weiblichkeit, Kunstgeschichte
» Amerikanische Videokunst, Programm IV, Sammelband