Hester Scheurwater Videoworks: Volume 2
Hester Scheurwater
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Collection: Compilations , Single Artist Compilations
Tags: Animals, Body, European Film/Video, Family, Feminism, Gender, Mental Landscape, Performance, Videoworks, Youth/Childhood
In her overt challenge to conventional modes of femininity and sexuality, Hester Scheurwater confronts the viewer with her own body. The distorted, doll-like characters she plays in her video performances balance between fantasy and reality shifting between being vulnerable, violent, inviting and threatening. Scheurwater's characters are portrayed as isolated, confused and damaged—physically and emotionally—and unable to connect to their surroundings. Scheurwater’s provocative and unsettling works address relationships, notions of decorum, and the portrayal of women in the media.
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As if trapped inside a nightmare, the main protagonist of Poster Girl is haunted by disturbing visions, thoughts and fantasies, which the viewer is privy to. She is joined at various points in the…
Collections: Single TitlesTags: Body, European Film/Video, Feminism, Performance, Sexuality, Mental Landscape
Woman, monster, animal? A portrait of a woman's face, the movement slowed down and reversed, the grotesquely made-up face examined in close-up.
Collections: Single TitlesTags: Animals, Body, Gender, Mental Landscape, Performance
A bruise on her face. The woman has white makeup, bright red lips and dark-rimmed eyes, which are largely covered by her hair. Without uttering a word, she hits her face, head and upper body.
Collections: Single TitlesTags: Crime or Violence, Performance
"Mama mama mama...," a woman calls out again and again, over and over. Is it her child that she mimics, or is she calling for her own mother? A desperate video performance in the first person.
Collections: Single TitlesTags: Body, European Film/Video, Family, Feminism, Gender, Performance, Youth/Childhood, Mental Landscape, Psychoanalysis
A mother holds her child. Her face barely shows expression.
Collections: Single TitlesTags: Body, Family, Performance, Youth/Childhood, Mental Landscape
The repeatedly distorted, primate behaviour of an (ani)female carrying her baby, reflecting the pain and suffering provoked by the mother/child relationship.
Collections: Single TitlesTags: Body, European Film/Video, Family, Performance, Youth/Childhood, Mental Landscape
Purify shows a disconnected women washing herself in blood.
Collections: Single TitlesTags: Feminism, Gender, Mental Landscape