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Pipilotti Rist,
Himalaya's Sister's Living Room,
2000.
Video installation with 10 projectors and 10 players in and around furniture and various objects, and wallpaper mounted on wood, with sound, Dimensions variable.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
Gift, Heather and Tony Podesta Collection, Falls Church, VA, 2004.
2004.113.
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Himalaya's Sister's Living Room (2000) is one of several large-scale video installations in which Pipilotti Rist (b. 1962, Rheintal, Switzerland) has explored the domestic space. The work simulates a dimly lit interior cluttered with found objects—retro furnishings, piles of books and magazines, assorted bric-a-brac—seemingly in casual disarray, but in fact carefully arranged by the artist. Videos from hidden projectors are cast onto the surfaces of various static objects, animating them in uncanny ways: on a side table, the artist presses her face against a windowpane; a lamp is lit by a close-up view of the open mouth of a woman standing in the snow; liquor bottles atop a 1950s-era bar glow with tiny films of an athlete and a landscape. These apparitions, together with the hypnotic soundtrack that fills the room, lend the space a dreamlike quality. As in many of her works, Rist has used video projections to suggest a view into the inner psyche—either her own or that of her female characters. In Himalaya's Sister's Living Room, she penetrates the exteriors of the found objects, uncovering the thoughts, memories, and anxieties that lie hidden within space of the household.
—Ted Mann
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