Over 18 only (video installation)

 

 

OVER 18 ONLY is a two- channel video installation that draws a parallel between the artist’s love affairs and her childhood experience of sexual abuse. Set in an intimate, confined space, the work centers around a bed. The visitor is invited to lie down on a bed, becoming  part of the immersive experience. Above them, the first video, Long Time No Sex, a 7-minute playful video in which the artist writes about her fisrt year in Berlin on a toilet paper, is projected onto the ceiling, while a mixed and distorted soundtrack, based on Serge Gainsbourg‘s Je T’aime plays through headphones.

Following this, a second video, Over 18 Only  plays on a small TV monitor beside the pillow. This 3-minute video focuses on the artist’s childhood sexual abuse, introducing a contrasting layer to the performance. This video installation blends the humorous, erotic, and ironic stories of love affairs in a new new city chosen to live, written in red on toilet paper, with the serious black and white narrative of violence. This randomness, along with the contrasting themes and a mixed and distorted soundtrack, evokes a complex emotional experience.  

Long time no sex (video)

Over 18 Only (video)

The installation Over 18 Only combines the use of an installation comprised of two videos constructing the illusion of a private space, in a exhibition frame. The one-to-one audience is invited to dive in an atmosphere of intimacy, lying on the bed to watch the stories of a woman who looks for love and sex as a survivor of sexual violence when a child.

 

Venues (the whole video installation)

2017: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Vienna, Austria

2013:  100˚ Grade Festival. Sophiensaele. Berlin, Germany.

           15th Art and Media Biennale. Wroclaw, Poland.

           Month of Performance. Altes Finanzamt. Berlin, Germany.

           Musterzimmer Gallery. Berlin. Germany

2012: HB Berlin. Berlin, Germany.

          Agora. Berlin, Germany.

sophiensaele

100˚ Grade. HAU/ Sophiensaele Festival. Berlin 2013.

projeção

100˚ Grade. HAU/ Sophiensaele Festival. Berlin 2013.

wro 1

WRO 15th Media Art Biennale 2013

wro 4

wro 2

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