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VALIE EXPORT Time and Countertime 1973/2011

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This work combines video and sculpture to complicate our perception of linear time. While the video monitor shows a recording of melting ice played in reverse, a plate of ice melts in front of the monitor in real time. The artist intended for this correspondence to be maintained by the strategically timed replacement of the ice; in the iteration here, the ice is replaced Monday–Friday. This play with temporal duration and inversion, enabled by the new medium of video, recalls an exhortation in EXPORT’s text “Women’s Art: A Manifesto” (1972): “We women must participate in the construction of reality via the building stones of media.”

Gallery label from 2021
Medium
Two gelatin silver prints, ink, pencil, and transfer type on paper
Dimensions
17 5/16 x 23 5/8" (43.9 x 59.9 cm)
Credit
Purchase
Object number
488.2011.2
Copyright
© 2024 VALIE EXPORT
Department
Media and Performance
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