Hajnal Németh

ARTWORK

video art

desire / gender / irony / perception

2001

Uses a mobius strip structure to step outside the flow of time and perform a Houdini-style removal of her bra. Once liberated, she doesn't want to burn it. She wants to flaunt it playfully, which she does first in high speed then in slow motion. She invites, only to counter, a male gaze with her own, a confident stare bolstered by a pair of sunglasses. The pop production values announce her as belonging to a generation that would just as soon take cues from advertising as they would a matrix of canonical performance video. (Hamza Walker)