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Filmed in a gallery space
set up to resemble a bedroom in this video work the artist enters the
bedroom and
sitting on the bed begins
to shave her legs. This act results in the gradual disappearance of her
legs. Indifferent to this result she continues to cover her entire body
from head to foot with cosmetic products – lotions, spray, talc and
a variety of make-up. Each application to the body is followed by the fading
and eventual invisibility of the body part attended to, dramatically culminating
in the artist’s body completely vanishing, her presence reduced to
a mere bodily outline. “Body Mist” is suggestive of the notion
that for women today the ultimate visibility stems from the eradication
of their natural bodies, The work purposely appeals to a voyeuristic
viewing often exhibited using a peep hole device, counteracting this
viewing process
simply through the fact that the longer one watches the less one sees. |
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