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(Entlastungen) Pippilottis Fehler / (Absolutions) Pippilotti's Mistakes

1988

Pipilotti Rist

(Swiss, b. 1962)

Switzerland

Video, color, sound, 11:17 min.

Louis D. Kacalieff, M.D. Fund 2020.272

© Pipilotti Rist

Location

not on view

Description

Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist’s work, which translates as “Absolutions, Pipolotti’s Mistakes,” juxtaposes images of herself collapsing to the ground with bursts of scrambled electronic distortion. The piece explores the imperfections of the video machine, which carries echoes of psychological and personal mistakes.

Provenance
2020
(Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
2020-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Fellah, Nadiah Rivera. “Global Feminisms + Video Art: Gestures of dissonance.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 62, no. 2 (2022): 23. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 23.
Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.272