'..single channel videos, sculptures, photographs, wallpapers and video installations spanning her career from the 1980s to today. Highly accomplished technically and employing dazzling colour, Rist's practice fuses sensual images, music and text to create mesmerising installations.'
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| 'Wohnzimmerdisco ohne Angst (Living Without Fear Disco)' 2009 Installation for a living room; light projection, carpet, curtain |
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| 'Hip Light's' 2011 |
This preoccupation with the body – and the female body in particular – underpins much of her art, which encompasses sculpture, audio and video installations. In her 1996 film 'I'm Not the Girl Who Misses Much', Rist dances frenetically for the camera, her breasts bare.
'I'm Not The Girl That Misses Much' 1986
I find there is an unsettling contrast between the girl in the video and the grey background behind her. I feel it contradicts the craziness in her dancing and high pitched singing that slowly gets faster and faster as the video plays. These movements portray a crazed and dramatic person, one of which whom I can relate to at certain parts of my life, which is further emphasized by her black dress that allows her breasts to hang out freely and bounce around as she dances mechanically. The video almost becomes disturbing and creepy after becoming more and more repetitive and also because it becomes more and more edited on an aesthetic and sound level.
When watching this film, I get the feeling that femininity is forced upon me and is hard to ignore. I feel the meaning becomes blurred which then creates more possible meanings and lets the viewer make their own decision. These are aspects that I may use in my own work when creating a sound or video piece.
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