At some moments Pipilotti Rist’s lecture at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen gets an intimate quality. You seem to be guided through a photo album, with snapshots from Pipilotti’s youth and college years and portraits from her family and friends. In this part, she thus pays tribute to the people th...
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Many people experience traditional art institutions and the artworks that are shown there, to be far apart from society and their own daily routine. In this part of her lecture, Pipilotti Rist places herself in a tradition of artists who try to work outside the institutionalized podiums. In vari...
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In fashion magazines and in advertisements, women are young, tall, slender and need to have an impeccable skin. In her work at the huge billboard at Times Square in New York Pipilotti Rist’s model doesn’t seem to have any of these characteristics. On the contrary, the artist explains that “in or...
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Characterizing a work of art as ‘feminist’ is dangerous. One might run the risk that the work is categorized as only interesting for women with hair on their teeth. Rist prefers to talk about emancipation in terms of sharing responsibility. She pleas for the development of the whole human that li...
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