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GERMANY / Frankfurt Main: MARIANNA SIMNETT
by Modem
© Modem

until Sunday January 06 2019

Museum für Moderne Kunst
T : +49 (0)69 212 30447
Domstrasse 10
60311 Frankfurt am Main
Germany



In the video installation Blood in My Milk by the British artist Marianna Simnett, the individual episodes merge to form a drastic narrative about present-day mechanisms of control that survey gender and the body as contested territory. Obscenity and immersion come about precisely there where the camera does its invasive work, where the closeness of what is shown exceeds our natural faculty of sight and penetrates the body. Every pore, every secrete becomes visible. The result is horror, brought about not by fiction but by the realism of the flesh, of the body, of mechanical objects ranging from simple gadgets to high-end technologies. The film sequences are infused with hierarchical power structures and categorical dichotomies that drastically dissolve, or are painfully defeated by the protagonists, as the narratives unfold.

© Modem