At the entrance to Pipilotti rist’s exhibition at Louisiana is the first spotlight artist himself, who obviously want out. In the title piece, ”Open my glade” presses herself against a pane of glass so that the facial features and make-up flows – winks to the feminist predecessor as Ana Mendieta and Cindy Sherman.
In the next step, step to the crowd on the video ”Mutaflor”, projected on the floor, with a large mouth that ”gobbles” the viewer. And once inside in the first hall, or the glade, opening to the ”intimate room” in the form of handbags. Looking down into a bag you can see an ”eye” to look up; a small round LCD monitor which reflects the flickering, blurred images. In a snippliknande seashell next to the reels of moving pictures of a real eye, as surreal staring back.
this is how Pipilotti Rist operating – across to museum conventions. This anarchist artist turns inside out, upside down, on the picture frame. She blasts the white cube frames, laborerar with the scale, embrace the blur, and in a string of inviting room installations she releases loose a stream of moving images which is spinning, flowing, flowing over all widths. It is bathed in a dreamlike bildvågor and dive with the camera down under the water, enveloped in a brilliant light, colours and congenial soundtrack.
a Still image from the ”Mercy Garden” in 2014. Photo: Pipilotti Rist
I love Piplotti Rist! Her art is magnetic, musical and soft organic, but at the same time, cross-border sharp. The location of the work is ”Sip my ocean”, where the Grid is doing a cover of a love ballad by Chris Isaak and hysterically skrålar ”I don’t waaaanna fall in love” to the hallucinatory underwater images from the Red sea.
This audio-visual record is, of course, Louisiana’s selection, as well as the feminist fräckisen ”Ever is over all”. At the end of the 90’s, she became the art world’s darling with this video, where a girlish woman smashes car window with furious good mood. A grip Beyoncé 20 years later stole straight off in his music video ”Hold up”, which, moreover, begins with the weightless underwater images à la Rist (but lacking the ironic twist with a saluterande female police officer).
Pipilotti Rist, video still from”Ever Is Over All”, 1997. Photo: Pipilotti Rist
In Sweden, there were many with me who got stuck for the swiss konststjärnan 2007, in connection with the Rists exhibition at Magasin 3 in Stockholm. As a swede, it is also fun to Charlotte Rists stage name is a salute to the barndomsidolen Pippi Longstocking, hopfogat with her own nickname Lotti. And typically, she has deleted a p in the first stage, so that the German – and French-speaking makes the connection to the bodily needs on the barnspråk. To lead the associations in completely the other direction, she writes sometimes pipi with two characters for the mathematical constant pi…
his career in punk rock, with music videos and multimediainstallationer for the stage. In Louisiana, she has taken on the museum’s background in a private residence, and built up more homey interiors, where she welcomes the audience to ”move into”.
the Installation ”the 4th floor to mildness” is surrounded by heavy curtains and furnished with lots of beds. There you may lie down and dream away. In the ceiling there are molnformade screens with underwater images, where bodies are swimming around among the air bubbles, and winding plants.
the Installation ”the 4th floor to mildness” Photo: Poul Buchard
Here, you think, very timely in monet’s water lily ponds, it and the baroque floating cloud formations. But as a contemporary artist using the Grid the camera lens as an extension of the eye and ”paints” with a camera.
had been toothless without the interference of the idyll. The red in the water can be blood, and you see that some plants rotted. In the directory described the shock Grid was when she returned to the Red sea for the new undervattenstagningar and discovered that the coral faded and died. Instead, she chose to film under water in the Alter Rhein.
But on the ground in the nedsläckta the installation, on my back in the soft bed, lulled I to the tranquility of the quiet music, the wake and the meditative bildflödet.
Then you are in the right mood to proceed into the ”Pixelwald”, an enchanted ”forest” with snöbollslika lamps, which hang in ropes from the ceiling and slowly shifts in color. It is a somewhat magical experience, for adults as well as children – but when the colors are screwed up it gets, in my opinion, well a lot of kitschy lights, christmas lights).
but the light and colors of the individual ”balls” is said to derive from the different pixels in an image, which leads the mind on to the bildflöde as overflows and divide us in today’s information society.
, how we process the external and internal images, is reflected in several works. In the staircase up to the sydflygelns upper floor, you can sit down and contemplate her everyday visits in a grocery store, but where a naked couple sneaks around in another movie that is dubbelexponerad over her face. An effective illustration of the internal monologue that rolls on a deeper medvetandeplan in everyone’s head.
On the upper floor, Pipilotti Rist decorated an entire ”apartment”. A site-specific totalinstallation with a double bed, table, seating area, shelves, books, paintings, lamps, ornaments and a specialritad wallpaper, titled ”Ögonlockets wrong side of the fabric”. Images are taken from the mikroskåpiska insights and solariserade ”after-images” in the eye, intertwined in a 54 metres long, winding väggverk.
Pipilottis Rists ”apartment” in Louisiana. Photo: Poul Buchard
I walk several laps around the in this peculiar, evocative environment and discover something new each time. A stuffed ostrich, a Russian babusjkadocka, a imploderad globe, a no-mask, a test pattern from tv’s infancy, a divan which could have been Freud’s, facing a desk where it rolls a kalejdoskåpiskt bildflöde.
Rist has also animated a old vedutamålning from Venice and added their own videoloopar of selected furniture. And in a corner with pillows shown multimediainstallationen ”Another body”, where both the wild boar and a naked woman feasting on apples in a paradisiacal garden.
k stagger out in the last room, with views out over a blue Sound. Here, it is easy to miss a tiny hole in the parquet, where Pipilotti looming, with the extended arms and yelling help, help in different languages.
It is one of my favourite piece, and in the Louisiana park can I get a new, ”Hiplights”. It consists of white panties with lace, hung with tvättklämmor in long ropes, and in the evenings, illuminated from within like japanese lanterns.
”Hiplights” in the park. Photo: Kim Hansen
The easy ekivoka the garments hanging criss-cross through the whole park and makes me so exhilarated that I immediately want to go out again in the Pipilottis generous open glades.
