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Categories: Photography
Keywords: Emancipation | Montage
Relevant passages:
Rudolf Frieling «Reality/Mediality
Hybrid Processes Between Art and Life»
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 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 Venus and Mars Time and Countertime Train Fitting
Valie Export
«The Birth Madonna»
Valie Export also uses the photo-collage medium to examine the ideological content of a famous art-historical model, in this case Michelangelo’s ‘Piet‡’ from St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome. The exaggerated depiction of suffering and the idealized portrayal of woman as mother is confronted with the crude realism of a housewife’s everyday life, here symbolized by the washing machine (a variant on the same motif is Export’s ‘Strickmadonna’ with a knitting machine).
