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Carla Barger about Scheurwater’s short films distributed by Video Data Bank : In these five shorts, the Dutch video artist Hester Scheurwater sets the camera, and thus the viewer, up as a voyeur of a violent and sterile world. In each piece, we are witness to a female figure who seems almost like a grotesque doll, and whose space is continually violated by the camera. Each piece contains a solitary woman whose face is obscured partially or entirely by her hair while her body is exposed. A certain brutality has taken place or is in process by the time we enter. Scheurwater's women are devoid of voice, devoid of identity; devoid of clothing except for sexual costume--black lingerie and/or high heels, heavy makeup that looks more like bruises than beautification, and devoid of shelter from our continual gaze and exploration. This is a powerful and macabre exploration of disconnection and isolation, and of woman as object.
Image: Hester Scheurwater
Posters with self portrait in public space
By Hester Scheurwater
"Dit project is een reactie op de poeslieve, keurige en eenzijdige beeld van de vrouw in de media. Mijn zelfportret is bijvoorbeeld een tegenbeeld, een imperfect plaatje. Voor mij is het een perfecte...
