Site-Specific Art, Institute of Fine Arts and Media ArtStatement Ortsbezogene
Kunst: Helena EribenneDate: March 26,2020
Start: 2pm
You are welcome to join the statement
via zoom meeting:
https://zoom.us/j/620763827My photo
and video series, “Self-Destructive Female Icons” is an exploration, restaging and re-enactment into the representative images
of seven 20th century born women who were successful and powerful in their fields. They were Romy Schneider, Princess Diana,
Marilyn Monroe, Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse, Paula Yates and Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick. They created powerful images of
themselves that communicated strong messages through style and gesture. These women have been selected because of their biographical
similarity and medial representation.
What interests me is not just how they are biographically
linked, but also how they appear to represent mythological female figures from the past, in particular the goddess Venus or
Aphrodite. There is also a link to figures in fairy tales such as protagonist Karen in the Hans Christian Andersen story “The
Red Shoes”, which I shall go into more in detail during my talk. The women are linked historically and genealogically through
time and images. I will illustrate this with art historical theories, in particular Aby Warburg’s bilderfahrzeug and bildwanderung.
Moreover, I wish to discuss why I think these women became self-destructive and how this pattern of behaviour is selected
by the elected few from our collective unconscious in order to fulfil a misplaced desire for worship.
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