Pipilotti Rist | Entlastungen 2

(Entlastungen) Pipilottis Fehler, 1988.

Film still

c-print

50 x 70 cm

Edition 20, produced in collaboration with Rist in 1995

This film still is taken from a video which is a nightmare repeated over and over again. The female protagonist struggles against physical and psychological impediments and keeps losing. She faints repeatedly, fails to climb over a fence, and tries to get out of a swimming pool but has her head forced under water every time she breaks the surface. Pipilotti Rist here performs absolutions for her faults, as the title tells us. As an outspoken feminist artist she might even be doing penance for Eve’s original sin. But the video itself is far from perfect: the image is distorted, highly pixelated and full of static. Moreover, the actions are never shown completely. We, the viewers, therefore also fail. Rist’s failure is ours.

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