Audio-visual Art

FEMME T'AFFALE

Controversy about looking on. Utopia of Fatality? The dominant image is a portrait of the narrator profile. Narrator’s head position and gestures are stylized to a position which is reference of current but also past stereotype expression of beauty, sensuality, passion and destiny in a moment. 

artistsZuzana Žabková
place_Neurčené město
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categoryAudio-visual Art
published2. 10. 2010
languageČesky / English
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FEMME T'AFFALE
In the poetics of identities, it is important to return to a certain point of zero, which is also a breaking point. My self is breaking through certain limitations and constantly fighting against itself. It is always in the process of becoming, and this process is always accompanied by a certain disjointedness. I am nobody and at the same time I am everybody. I belong to the anywheres, to those who are at home everywhere and nowhere at the same time. I don’t know if that is a reason to be sad.
Marilyn Monroe comes back to life in the form of her frisky doppelganger. According to David, the slowed-down Arabic music that accompanies the video is “a kind of willful act, an Arabesque, perhaps like that ficus tree or whatever that thing is behind ‘Marilyn’, or like the naïve movements of her hands and body.” It can also be interpreted as a counterpoint highlighting the contrast between our view of woman and the Muslim view.