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Categories: Installation | Video
Works by Jochen Gerz:
2146 Stones – Monument Against Racism
Exhibition of Jochen Gerz Next to His Photographic Reproduction Auto-portrait 71 Pictures at an Exhibition The Berkeley Oracle The Dachau Project Mona L.’s Smile Remains Unanswered The Mouth that Paints The Trans-Sib. Prospect These Words are My Flesh IBM Colour Ribbon Warning: Art Corrupts Life Marsyas (From Death, Out Of Life) Photo/Text 51 Purple Cross for absent now Revolution 1971 Calling to the Point of Exhaustion Writing by Hand Snake Hoods & Dragons' Dreams Video Opera House
Jochen Gerz
«The Head of M»
This installation, no. 7 in the 'Griechische Stücke' ('Greek Pieces’) series, consists of the two-fold reproduction – with a sickle and petrified mirror as sculpture and as video – of the mythological figure of Medusa, who died ‘because her own image turned her into stone’. The only movement on the tape is that of the camera as it zooms in and out to observe the actor. The double refraction of the self-image into ideal on the one hand and disillusionment on the other is further duplicated by the physical presence of a sculptural figure as well as a video simulation. The only sound is the hissing of the monitor.
