V8/10
/9
- V8/10
- 2010
- video, color, no sound
- 4min, 45sec
The only fragmentarily visible body of a woman lies on a transparent glass plate and is filmed from below while it turns slowly on its own axis. The woman wears a red dress, which has been embroidered by the artist with a white ornament derived from a historical model. By virtue of it’s lying on the glass, certain areas of the body are pressed flat, making the front level of the image seem like the cause of a soft but inexorable power to which this body is being subjected. Maria Hahnenkamp expands her critical discourse on the relationship between image and female body further by wrapping her model’s body in narrow strips of film, to which she has applied quotations by Judith Butler¹ with adhesive lettering. Over the course of the rotating movement, these “slogan banners” wrap quite tightly around the woman’s thighs, whereupon they then unroll themselves once more in a counter-motion and bring the lines of text together with the lines of ornamentation. S.E.
1
Judith Butler, "The Psychic Life of Power. Theories in Subjection." Stanford University Press: 1997.
1
Judith Butler, "The Psychic Life of Power. Theories in Subjection." Stanford University Press: 1997.