courtesy: Janaina TSCHÄPE
Camaleoas
| Artist | Janaina TSCHÄPE |
|---|---|
| Year | 2002 |
| Material/ Technique | Single Channel Video Installation, DVD, sound |
| Size/ Duration | 20 min. |
| Copyright Notice | © Janaina TSCHÄPE |
| Year of acquisition/ donation | 2005 |
| Description | Born in Munich, Germany in 1973. Lives and works in New York, USA. Janaina Tschäpe’s German father and Brazilian mother named her Janaina after a Brazilian water goddess. Appropriately, she makes myth-like, allegorical works on the themes of water and the ocean. Using diverse media, including photography, video and drawing, Tschäpe employs sculptural costumes to transform the female body, and, by making it blend into the natural landscape, she creates mysterious spectacles that seem halfway between dream and reality. This is a video work in the documentary style in which Tschäpe has interviewed four women who live in a slum area of Rio de Janeiro. She created this work while staying in the slum and holding workshops for women there. The four women each think about what they would like to become, make costumes to suit those new images of themselves and then wear those costumes. The women’s reasons for choosing images such as ‘the sun’ and ‘robot/machine,’ and their own life histories are narrated in a fragmentary way. One sequence that leaves a particularly vivid impression is when they relate their experiences and thoughts on the life of women while a mix of real and fantastical imagery fills the screen. |
NOTES
This Collection Data page contains the works and materials in the collection of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, as of April 1, 2018.
Artists are listed alphabetically by artist’s surname.
Works and materials by the same artists are listed according to the date of the work in principle.
Works whose dates are unidentified are listed at the end of each item. Some works are not listed according to the date of work due to their relations.
The data of works and materials are listed in order of title, production year, material/technique/form, dimensions, donor’s name, copyright holder and credit for photograph.
Dimensions are given by height (H) x width (W) in centimeters for plane work, and height (H) x width (W) x depth (D) in cm for 3-D work. Diameter (Ø) is used for circular work.
For the name of country or city, the name currently used in English is listed in principle.