"When I close my eyes, my imagination roams free. In the same way I want to create spaces for video art that rethink the very nature of the medium itself. I want to discover new ways of configuring the world, both the world outside and the world within."
The human body is central to Pipilotti Rist's work. She wants to 'shake up the taboos which make people tense or afraid'. She believes that messages conveyed on emotional and sensual frequencies are more effective in breaking prejudices and changing habits than printed pamphlets and didactic tracts.
Visiting the exhibition of Pipilotti Rist at the Hayward Gallery, I became instantly more engaged with moving image. Film has such a great impact on the individual through the use of movement, colour and sound. This is reinforced by the thoroughly thought out use of screening/architecture housing and guiding the viewer to each piece of work.
Pipilotti Rist has famously compared video to a handbag, because 'there is room in them for everything: painting, technology, language, music, movement, flowing pictures, poetry, commotion, premonitions of death, sex and friendliness'.
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