photo: SAIKI Taku
You Renew You
| Artist | Pipilotti RIST |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Material/ Technique | video / audio installation as an instant temple, with 2 projectors, 2 media players, 2 sound systems, 2 timers, plexiglass, moulded-in crystals, and mirror, located in the female and male bathrooms of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa - A tribute to SANAA |
| Size/ Duration | H30 × W30 × D30cm |
| Copyright Notice | © Pipilotti RIST courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth |
| Year of acquisition/ donation | 2004 |
| Description | Born in Rheintal, Switzerland in 1962. Lives and works in Zurich. Pipilotti Rist creates highly individualistic works, drawing on her command of several expressive fields, including graphic design, photography, video and animation, and her experience playing in a rock band. Her work features extreme close-ups of parts of the body, often deliberately at angles producing distortion and discomforting the viewer, or else portrayal of radical or comical behavior, which she fuses with Pop-like flowing, color-infused music and video. Although her works combine grotesqueness and incongruity to jarring effect, Rist views people with a compassionate eye. A bathroom is a place of cleansing that is indispensable to everyone. Rist has viewed the bathroom as a sacred place and installed in it an altar, 30 centimeters to a side, placing on the altar some crystals and an object modeled after the Museum. Onto this object she has projected a video that celebrates the conversion of food and drink within the body into blood, tears and internal organs, accompanied by words of gratitude for bodily wastes. Bathed in music that blends Rist’s high lilting voice with water sounds and the singing of birds, viewers feel as if they had entered a mysterious world instead of a common, everyday bathroom. |
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.