Pipilotti Rist is a Swiss visual artist. Rist creates large, complex video art installations, they are immersive kaleidoscopic projections that fuse the natural world with technology.
She compares video to a handbag - a medium where she can pack it all in. Rists installations use, cameras, complex editing, animation, music and soundscapes to explore the relationship between technology and the natural world.
Nature and the digital are united in the ecstasy of communication - we must treat technology with respect and new possibilities will arrive.
'Ever is Over All' (1997)
Utilises aggression and the destructive emotion and emotion to craft a more hopeful piece - music, art and film. The catharsis lies in her disposition, normal and unaggressive, pleased. Her agenda is to question given things. The car a symbol of what’s given - and how used we get to things so quickly. Red hot poker - flower a garden very strong flower
Video has a painterly quality - colour noise in standard definition looks like stokes and bleeding colour, reds. Rist is interested in colour and its association with danger and the proletariat, exoticism and seduction. seductive and endless
Referenced by Beyonce in her iconic lemonade album - the music video for Hold Up.
Key interests: sustainability, colour, studio team work, curator, beauty
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