Jodie Pellish
September 30, 2009
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One angel conveniently turns her back towards her crushed sister, demurely playing the expected role to the same forces that could destroy her too.
In the video installation Woman on a Swing, Reichert and Liss explore the relationship between movement, sensation, and subject in cinematography. The video depicts a young woman on a swing; a classic motif suggesting light-hearted and carefree youth, ephemerality, desire, buoyancy. The subject is seen from behind in an intentionally indeterminate setting, which allows/enables the viewer to project and/or identify.
Although she [...]
Pipecleaner, 2007
“3D-Pipes,” a kitschy late-90s Microsoft screensaver is the lo-fi setting for a quirky post-feminist intervention. Wearing a dress made out of cleaning gloves, a pole dancer invades the screensaver’s maze of pipes. Her spins, gyrations, and efforts to climb and clean the pipes become absurd when reduced to byte-sized edits that mimic the original [...]
BLU, 2009
Video: 1:10min
Words of desire spin in a demanding hypnotic loop.
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“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. The emotion derives from a double contact: on the one had, [...]
Vadis Turner
Artist Statement
My work engages the transformative legacy of handmade object to heirloom to historical artifact.
I am interested in the generational and cultural relevance of crafts made by women. Though time they appreciate in value, function as a currency and serve as a documentation of the artist and her origins.
I am currently developing a collection of contemporary heirlooms will ultimately compose my Dowry. The works re-imagine conventional handicrafts, gender roles and rites to visualize the values of my generation.
Traditionally exchanged for societal and marital advancement, my Dowry will be sold or traded for professional gain.
The merging of all three “Suz”, Sue, Su, and Sioux (representative of three alter-egos symptomatic of the polarizing impacts of race and identity politics) into a single entity is an attempt to re-define the self, using tactics familiar to how commercial and corporate industries re- brand themselves or form a new authentic identity. The Suz, [...]
Detail of ‘Childhood ‘memory station’ in Secret Museum of Mankind Installation
This piece was part of the installation Secret Museum Of Mankind where I created my own Natural History Museum, which included different ‘memory stations’: that represented my genetic past, childhood and future.