‘PENELOPE
PSYCHO’
DVD, colour, 3’36’’ loop
Direction and Editing : Carmen Arrabal
Thanks
to : Iniciarte, Masbedo, Marta Vega, Marisa Mancilla and Héctor Bermejo
Málaga, 2006
Video-installation:
1 LCD flat screen
1 DVD player
A five-metre wool scarf
2 knitting needles
A ball of wool. |
Simulation
of the video-installation |
‘Penelope
psycho’ was
made in July 2006 during a summer workshop organized by MASBEDO, the
Italian video artists, and produced by INICIARTE (Consejeria de Cultura
de la Junta de Andalucia).
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‘Penelope
psycho’ explores the conflicts of the feminine Self.
Two representations are put into contrast with the help of a distorted
contemporary metaphor of the myth of Penelope: the one who 'weaves',
or the old passive ideal of the one who waits forever, and the one
who 'undoes' and is governed by her urges. It is a struggle with ‘the
other’ within the context of a schizophrenic attempt to live
out this duality.
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