25 April – 15 June
screening at Lindenstr 35
daily, 8 – 10 pm
IMAGE TO IMAGE

Katarzyna Kozyra
Cheerleader, 2006, 4:30 min


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Cheerleader was conceived as a pop video to the music and words of the Gwen Stefani song "What You Waiting For?” The scenes unfold in a typical men´s locker room, evoking clichés of femininity and masculinity. In the beginning the young, fit men do not pay the slightest attention to Kozyra, the attractive, singing and dancing cheerleader. But when she reappears in her nude, obese, female opera singer costume, the thong-clad athletes stand at full attention. The video explores, amongst others, the problems of the body as a costume and of one´s own identity that have frequently been the artist´s preoccupation. The artist significantly makes use of images that she created of herself in previous works: the fat woman from Diva: Reincarnation and herself dressed as a man from Men´s Bathhouse, the work that received Honorable Mention at the 1999 Venice Biennale. A choir comprised of two of the directors and a curator from the Zacheta Gallery in Warsaw also appears in the film singing backup for the artist.

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Persons Projects
Lindenstrasse 34-35
10969 Berlin

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