Pflaster/Haut
Kytösalmi-Buhl Mervi
The artist carefully covers her entire face with plasters and then removes them slowly. The work comments on the female beauty industry and plastic surgery, resulting to a monstrous face freeze.
Production Year
1978
Duration
00:12:45
Tyyppi
Asiasana
beauty ideals, beauty operations, documentarism, face, feminism, media art, pain, performance (art forms), plastic surgery, symbolism, video art, videotape works
Original Title
Pflaster/Haut
Finnish Title
Laastari
English Title
Pflaster/Haut
Production Countries
Germany
Dialogue
No
Sound
Yes
Cast
Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl (Author), Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl (Director)
Press Photos
Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl
Born: 1948
Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl was born in Imatra, Finland and currently lives and works in Cologne, Germany. Kytösalmi-Buhl is a pioneer of Finnish video art, whose work in the 1970s and 1980s can be considered as the beginning of Finnish video art. The artist has studied in the Düsseldorf Art Academy in Germany under the guidance of famous pioneers artists such as Nam June Paik. In her resent works, she has used photography, object collages and crocheting. Her works can be found in the collections of e.g. the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki.
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