Eine Frau ist eine Frau ist eine Frau ...
- Date of creation : 1972
- Country : Germany
- Duration : 00:04:00
- Technical characteristics : Black & white, Sound, PAL
- Artist - Author : Ulrike Rosenbach
Description
"In fleeting moments, the artist's hair and face appear on the screen as she performs cult-like movements in front of the camera. The background is a photo of a room filled with masks. In addition, one continuously hears the sentences she speaks: "A rose is a rose is a rose..." (Gertrude Stein).
The tautologies Woman - Rose expose the term, which has been reduced to a clichéd formula. The concepts are inevitably accompanied by certain associatively linked ideas. Language may become a constraint on meaning. Here Ulrike Rosenbach attempts to strip the words of their intended and perceived meaning. With the masks as a symbol for the term, which has been reduced to a meaningless cliché, the artist introduces an almost surrealistic, alienating moment."
(Source: Gerhard Glüher (ed.), Ulrike Rosenbach : Wege zur Medienkunst 1969 bis 2004, Köln, Wienand, 2005, p.216.)
- Type : video
Publications and Periodicals which reference the work
Gerhard Glüher (ed.), Ulrike Rosenbach : Wege zur Medienkunst 1969 bis 2004, Köln, Wienand, 2005.